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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Recordings on.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Thank you. It is now 1101 A.m.
and we have a quorum and I'd like to call</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>this regular meeting of the Seattle
Public Library Board of Trustees to order.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>I would like to point out that in our
agenda we have a numbering error.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>And the agenda currently goes from letter
H to letter J, skips letter I.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>So I'm noting that adjourn should be I
and next to library board meeting should</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>be J.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>So with those changes,
and if there are no other changes,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>I hear a motion to approve the agenda as
corrected.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>So moved.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Second.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Moved and seconded. All in favor,
raise your hand.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Grooves.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Okay, okay, public comment.
As noted in the top of the agenda,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>the library board is accepting public
comment that is directed to matters on</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>the agenda by email, in person,
at the Central Library,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>and in this remote meeting.
Any public comments so far?</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>There is no one present at the Central
Library, no one has signed up in Q&amp;A,</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>and there are no public comments by email
this month.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Thank you, Amy. Hi, Ryan, how are you?</v>

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<v Ron >I'm doing good. Great.
Great to see everybody.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Okay.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Good to see you. We're rolling.
We're at number D, the consent agenda.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>So we have a consent agenda with minutes
from our April special meeting,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>our April regular meeting,
and the April financial report.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>So if no one has changes to these
documents, may I hear a motion to pursue?</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>to approve the consent agenda as
published.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>So moved.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Second.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>It's been moved and seconded.
All in favor, raise your hand.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>And the motion passes. Thank you.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>All right, and Tom Fay is out for today.
Hopefully vacationing,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>hopefully doing something he loves,
as we have admonished him to do so,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>to take time. So we have Rick today,
who will be going in for Tom.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>And so the Chief Librarian report will
come out today, the written report stands.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>And Rick,
if there may be something you wanted to</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>share about that,
but I'll leave that open to you. If not,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>we'll jump right into the system report.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>Just to Mr. Vice President,
just to add that Chief Librarian Tom Fay</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>did express his regrets for not being
able to attend today because of his</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>vacation,
but he did mention that if there are any</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>questions about his report,
he'd be happy to answer them at the next</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>board meeting.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>So we will hold our questions about that
report to the next board meeting,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>and we'll go straight into our system
report. Thank you, Rick.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>So the 2026 Global Reading Challenge is
our first item for system report.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>Hello. Hi, I'm Jenny Craig. Greetings,
everyone.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Hi, Jenny.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>I'm here to talk about Global Reading
Challenge this year.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>This was the 31st year of the program and
we got through it.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>It was delightful and celebratory.
We gave away, okay, I'm going to just</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>tell you a lot of statistics,
but I will answer questions as desired.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>And if you need me to stop, just tell me.
Okay,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>because there's a lot of things to tell
you. So we gave away 9,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>992 paperback books for the competition
and as prizes.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>That included 300 Spanish language copies,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>We also distributed 6 PlayAway and 141
Vox audio books to schools,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>which are embedded audio players with the
books with embedded audio players.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>Those were specifically sent to schools
with high English language learner</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>populations. We had 10,
112 downloads of digital formats.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>And despite the uptick in downloads,
because that's almost 1000 more than last</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>year,
schools report that kids still prefer to</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>read physical books and that the physical
audio books are critical to some of their</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>readers. So we're happy about that.
72 schools accepted books.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>71 participated in the semi-finals and
finals. Almost 3,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>700 children competed in an in-school
challenge.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>on approximately 532 teams.
We also had 23 in-person author talk</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>events with authors Sean David Hutchinson,
Ernesto Cisneros, and Chanel Miller.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>All of those were at Title I schools.
All of those were really well received,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>and approximately 2,
248 students attended those talks.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>They were super engaged and really
enjoyed them. So our total numbers are 3,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>696 in the trivia competition, 2,
248 in the author talks at Title 1</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>schools. There was an overlap of about 1,
000.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>So the total participants accounting for
the overlap is 4,874.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>which is a huge impact.
Very pleased about that.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>And I just wanted to mention that at Rox
Hill,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>which is a Title I school in West Seattle,
the whole school read Chanel Miller's</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>book, Magnolia Woo, Unfolds It All,
which is about reuniting Lost Socks with</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>their owners.
And so their art teacher got involved.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>And when we came for the author talk,
the whole school was decorated with</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Mmh.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>hundreds of paper socks that the kids had
designed and drawn and colored in order</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>of the, in honor of the author talk.
And all of the staff were wearing their</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>zaniest socks. And like,
as we were trying to get to the cafeteria,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>everyone's like, oh, I gotta show you,
this is what I'm wearing today.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>This is what, these are my socks.
These are my favorite socks.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>It was really cute.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Pugh.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>So some highlights from this year was a
huge year for publicity.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>Elisa and Comms and Will from the
foundation have been working on</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>developing a pitch for more publicity for
Global Reading Challenge for the last</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>couple of years,
and this year it got picked up.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>Seattle Times reporter Claire Bryant,
Brian.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>Picked it up.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>She did two features.
She actually came to both a semi-final</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>and a finals.
And Elisa also wrote up a really</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>fantastic shelf talk post about the power
of the author talks.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>Our finals then were this party,
because Mayor Wilson attended,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>as well as our library leadership,
both Tom and Kay.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>And then we had reached out to the
Seattle Storm because of one of our books,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>which is called We Are Big Time,
which is by Hana Khan,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>which is based on the real experiences of
a team of hijabi basketball players,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>which really,
really resonated with the Storm.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>So they brought their mascot, Doppler,
to the City finals and a bunch of swag</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>and gave away tickets. I mean,
they were just</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>incredibly generous and really kind.
Let's see,</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>we had 50 staff outside of the children's
librarians assisting with Global Reading</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>Challenge in a scorekeeping capacity,
and that's staff from lots of different</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>levels,
everything from ASLs to LA ones and twos.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>So it was.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>It's tremendous.
They help so much by showing up and doing</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>the scorekeeping.
But that is a huge lift for our system.</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>So I just want to thank everybody in our
whole system who found ways to send the</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>staff, to PSO for scheduling them,
and to those staff members for coming out</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>to support.
It makes a big difference on how well</v>

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<v Jenny Craig>these</v>

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00:08:04.635 --> 00:08:08.502
<v Jenny Craig>various challenges go when we've got our
people in place.</v>

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00:08:08.502 --> 00:08:13.835
<v Jenny Craig>And I also want to take a moment to just
highlight how much work the children's</v>

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00:08:13.835 --> 00:08:18.435
<v Jenny Craig>librarians do for this program.
They maintain relationships with the</v>

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00:08:18.435 --> 00:08:21.435
<v Jenny Craig>schools.
They move their schedules around to</v>

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00:08:21.435 --> 00:08:23.435
<v Jenny Craig>accommodate in-school timings.</v>

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00:08:23.715 --> 00:08:27.516
<v Jenny Craig>because a lot of times the schools are
the schools are on a significantly</v>

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00:08:27.516 --> 00:08:30.700
<v Jenny Craig>earlier schedule than we are.
They enthusiastically greet the</v>

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00:08:30.700 --> 00:08:34.603
<v Jenny Craig>participants who come into branches
looking for books and sometimes come in</v>

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00:08:34.603 --> 00:08:38.815
<v Jenny Craig>to the branches to rehash challenges and
how well that went down and want to know</v>

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00:08:38.815 --> 00:08:42.307
<v Jenny Craig>a little bit more about why decisions
were made. Behind the scenes,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/68-5
00:08:42.307 --> 00:08:44.875
<v Jenny Craig>they write questions.
They make video promotions.</v>

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00:08:45.235 --> 00:08:50.383
<v Jenny Craig>We had a spectacular video this year
where our Southwest CSL, Amanda,</v>

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00:08:50.383 --> 00:08:55.825
<v Jenny Craig>actually wrote and performed an original
GRC song. It's totally adorable.</v>

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00:08:55.825 --> 00:09:00.679
<v Jenny Craig>And the kids loved it.
That was the feedback we got from schools.</v>

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00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.915
<v Jenny Craig>They also do school visits or
celebrations.</v>

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00:09:04.315 --> 00:09:07.522
<v Jenny Craig>They encourage non-CSL staff to come out
and be scorekeepers.</v>

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00:09:07.522 --> 00:09:10.213
<v Jenny Craig>They run the competitions.
And in addition to that,</v>

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00:09:10.213 --> 00:09:14.506
<v Jenny Craig>many of them help with selection or other
projects when I put out a call for help.</v>

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00:09:14.506 --> 00:09:17.041
<v Jenny Craig>My work group is a small but mighty team
of two.</v>

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00:09:17.041 --> 00:09:20.818
<v Jenny Craig>Jesse and Kat are my work group mainstays.
They're amazing to work with,</v>

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00:09:20.818 --> 00:09:24.698
<v Jenny Craig>and they've been a huge support.
But the way the program works is with the</v>

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00:09:24.698 --> 00:09:26.715
<v Jenny Craig>collaboration of our whole SPL village.</v>

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00:09:27.115 --> 00:09:31.234
<v Jenny Craig>in addition to the large contributions of
the Seattle Public Schools Village.</v>

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00:09:31.234 --> 00:09:33.663
<v Jenny Craig>So just,
just want to put that out there that</v>

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00:09:33.663 --> 00:09:37.835
<v Jenny Craig>everybody really brings a lot of heart
and time and thought into this program.</v>

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00:09:38.955 --> 00:09:42.962
<v Faith Pettis>Can I just say, Jenny,
that Chair Mehdi and I were at the finals</v>

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00:09:39.195 --> 00:09:39.515
<v Jenny Craig>Um...</v>

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00:09:42.962 --> 00:09:46.413
<v Faith Pettis>of the Global Reading Challenge at the
Central Library,</v>

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00:09:46.413 --> 00:09:51.221
<v Faith Pettis>and the atmosphere in the room was just
electric. It was really fun to watch,</v>

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00:09:51.221 --> 00:09:53.995
<v Faith Pettis>the excitement.
So thank you for doing that.</v>

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00:09:54.235 --> 00:09:59.159
<v Jenny Craig>Well, thank you for coming. I mean,
this is part of what makes it so great is</v>

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00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:03.199
<v Jenny Craig>having everybody really celebrating the
readers. So, yay. Okay,</v>

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00:10:03.199 --> 00:10:08.060
<v Jenny Craig>so the challenges we had this year,
we had another really long season to try</v>

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00:10:08.060 --> 00:10:11.595
<v Jenny Craig>to accommodate Ramadan because we're
trying to make it.</v>

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00:10:12.955 --> 00:10:17.128
<v Jenny Craig>We don't necessarily,
we don't want the kids who are choosing</v>

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00:10:17.128 --> 00:10:21.973
<v Jenny Craig>to fast to have to compete while fasting.
That seems like a lot to ask.</v>

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00:10:21.973 --> 00:10:27.020
<v Jenny Craig>But that is going to change next year
because Ramadan moves earlier in the</v>

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00:10:27.020 --> 00:10:30.722
<v Jenny Craig>calendar year.
We do continue to receive feedback that</v>

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00:10:30.722 --> 00:10:32.875
<v Jenny Craig>the timeline is too long because</v>

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00:10:33.435 --> 00:10:37.109
<v Jenny Craig>Well, there's a couple reasons. One,
most of the Seattle Public School staff</v>

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00:10:37.109 --> 00:10:40.830
<v Jenny Craig>are half time and they need GRC to take
up a little less time in the teaching</v>

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00:10:40.830 --> 00:10:43.692
<v Jenny Craig>year, I think. Also,
as one school Librarian pointed out in</v>

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00:10:43.692 --> 00:10:47.127
<v Jenny Craig>our recent listening session,
reading the book once or twice before the</v>

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00:10:47.127 --> 00:10:50.800
<v Jenny Craig>in-school is enjoyment. After that,
the teams that are going on to semis and</v>

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00:10:50.800 --> 00:10:54.140
<v Jenny Craig>finals are often memorizing the books,
which isn't really one of the,</v>

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00:10:54.140 --> 00:10:58.195
<v Jenny Craig>isn't really in keeping with the goals of
the program. So we're thinking about that.</v>

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00:10:58.635 --> 00:11:03.171
<v Jenny Craig>talking about that, listening some more,
seeing what we can do about it.</v>

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00:11:03.171 --> 00:11:06.278
<v Jenny Craig>Our other major challenge was that the
selection,</v>

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00:11:06.278 --> 00:11:11.001
<v Jenny Craig>so our selection committee chose eight
books, 2 graphic novels, no sequels,</v>

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00:11:11.001 --> 00:11:14.418
<v Jenny Craig>because that's what the schools asked for,
nonfiction,</v>

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00:11:14.418 --> 00:11:18.395
<v Jenny Craig>and we chose one of the books that they
specifically asked for.</v>

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00:11:18.875 --> 00:11:21.627
<v Jenny Craig>and only one book was over 300 pages.
So that seemed,</v>

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00:11:21.627 --> 00:11:24.990
<v Jenny Craig>we were going into it thinking, oh,
this is great. This is great.</v>

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00:11:24.990 --> 00:11:28.914
<v Jenny Craig>It was well received by the participants.
But despite our lower page counts,</v>

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00:11:28.914 --> 00:11:32.939
<v Jenny Craig>our feedback after the event was that the
reading level and the subject matter</v>

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00:11:32.939 --> 00:11:36.150
<v Jenny Craig>skewed a little bit too high.
The kids who participated in the</v>

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00:11:36.150 --> 00:11:40.124
<v Jenny Craig>competition really loved the books,
but we heard that many of the lower level</v>

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00:11:40.124 --> 00:11:41.755
<v Jenny Craig>readers who opted out this year,</v>

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00:11:42.475 --> 00:11:45.587
<v Jenny Craig>it was because the books were too hard.
So for next season,</v>

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00:11:45.587 --> 00:11:49.684
<v Jenny Craig>we're planning to re-center the 4th grade
readers in hopes of addressing those</v>

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00:11:49.684 --> 00:11:52.329
<v Jenny Craig>concerns.
So we're working on selection right now.</v>

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00:11:52.329 --> 00:11:56.478
<v Jenny Craig>We're planning to get the list to schools
before school-led, so that's in June,</v>

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00:11:56.478 --> 00:11:57.515
<v Jenny Craig>so that's happening.</v>

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00:11:59.675 --> 00:12:04.236
<v Jenny Craig>And I wanted to finish with a couple of
stories just because this is what this is</v>

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00:12:04.236 --> 00:12:07.907
<v Jenny Craig>all about. So from BF Day,
I have to share a reaction from one of</v>

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00:12:07.907 --> 00:12:11.244
<v Jenny Craig>our 5th graders yesterday when the GRC
books were revealed.</v>

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00:12:11.244 --> 00:12:15.304
<v Jenny Craig>When it was time to check out,
she excitedly grabbed We Are Big Time and</v>

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00:12:15.304 --> 00:12:19.475
<v Jenny Craig>started paging through the book.
She came up to me and said in excitement,</v>

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00:12:19.595 --> 00:12:23.210
<v Jenny Craig>Look, they look like me.
She then went through the book to see how</v>

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00:12:23.210 --> 00:12:26.285
<v Jenny Craig>many different hijabs matched ones that
she had at home.</v>

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00:12:26.285 --> 00:12:29.846
<v Jenny Craig>She was so excited to get a book
reflecting her and her identity.</v>

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00:12:29.846 --> 00:12:32.652
<v Jenny Craig>She and her family are new to the school
this year,</v>

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00:12:32.652 --> 00:12:35.242
<v Jenny Craig>and it was just a special moment of
connection.</v>

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00:12:35.242 --> 00:12:39.288
<v Jenny Craig>We also had a story from Central.
A patron walked into the children's area</v>

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00:12:39.288 --> 00:12:40.475
<v Jenny Craig>looking for GRC books.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/83-0
00:12:40.875 --> 00:12:43.691
<v Jenny Craig>This was a mom,
and she said last year her son was a very</v>

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00:12:43.691 --> 00:12:46.361
<v Jenny Craig>reluctant reader,
and his teacher at Pathfinder had to</v>

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00:12:46.361 --> 00:12:49.323
<v Jenny Craig>bribe him with nerds candy to be on a
team, but he loved it,</v>

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00:12:49.323 --> 00:12:52.478
<v Jenny Craig>and he loved it so much that,
and loved a couple of the books in</v>

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00:12:52.478 --> 00:12:55.731
<v Jenny Craig>particular, that he's thinking,
he was thinking about being a team</v>

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00:12:55.731 --> 00:12:58.110
<v Jenny Craig>captain this year,
and it completely changed his</v>

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00:12:58.110 --> 00:12:59.275
<v Jenny Craig>relationship to reading.</v>

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00:12:59.995 --> 00:13:00.395
<v Jenny Craig>Um...</v>

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00:13:01.555 --> 00:13:04.843
<v Jenny Craig>From South Shore,
the teacher there collected feedback and</v>

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00:13:04.843 --> 00:13:09.245
<v Jenny Craig>the students said that the things they
loved the most were reading a realistic</v>

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00:13:09.245 --> 00:13:13.145
<v Jenny Craig>account about deportation and ICE because
it's so relevant right now,</v>

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00:13:13.145 --> 00:13:16.154
<v Jenny Craig>reading new books for free,
learning about new stuff,</v>

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00:13:16.154 --> 00:13:20.501
<v Jenny Craig>talking to classmates about the books,
finding connections to and between the</v>

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00:13:20.501 --> 00:13:20.835
<v Jenny Craig>books,</v>

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00:13:21.355 --> 00:13:24.826
<v Jenny Craig>They loved that the books were
multicultural, working as a team,</v>

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00:13:24.826 --> 00:13:27.229
<v Jenny Craig>getting a gift even if your team didn't
win,</v>

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00:13:27.229 --> 00:13:31.394
<v Jenny Craig>and the excitement of only having 30
seconds to answer a question. Let's see.</v>

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00:13:31.394 --> 00:13:34.919
<v Jenny Craig>And then two quick stories from Leshi and
Emerson. At one school,</v>

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00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:38.764
<v Jenny Craig>the winning team from the school
challenge included a reluctant reader.</v>

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00:13:38.764 --> 00:13:42.395
<v Jenny Craig>His mother contacted me before the
semi-final round to let me know.</v>

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00:13:42.755 --> 00:13:46.413
<v Jenny Craig>that her son was willingly reading
chapter books for the first time because</v>

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00:13:46.413 --> 00:13:48.579
<v Jenny Craig>of GRC.
His mom and his grand were coming to</v>

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00:13:48.579 --> 00:13:52.189
<v Jenny Craig>watch the semifinals and were super proud
of him. And at his other school,</v>

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00:13:52.189 --> 00:13:55.173
<v Jenny Craig>it felt like academic achievement rarely
takes the spotlight.</v>

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00:13:55.173 --> 00:13:58.253
<v Jenny Craig>The GRC is really one of the few
recognitions for good readers,</v>

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00:13:58.253 --> 00:14:02.104
<v Jenny Craig>and all of the students on that winning
team were extremely proud and felt like</v>

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00:14:02.104 --> 00:14:03.355
<v Jenny Craig>they felt seen as readers.</v>

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00:14:03.755 --> 00:14:07.409
<v Jenny Craig>So that, I don't know,
that's why we do it. That's what we,</v>

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00:14:07.409 --> 00:14:12.038
<v Jenny Craig>that's those are the those are the
stories that make the difference when we</v>

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00:14:12.038 --> 00:14:13.195
<v Jenny Craig>keep going forward.</v>

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00:14:14.795 --> 00:14:18.155
<v Jenny Craig>Anyway, if there's any questions,
I'm happy to answer questions.</v>

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00:14:19.355 --> 00:14:20.075
<v Jenny Craig>Carmen.</v>

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00:14:19.435 --> 00:14:19.995
<v Tali Hairston>Yeah, Carmen.</v>

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00:14:22.395 --> 00:14:25.763
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah, thank you, Jenny. This was,
I always love hearing about global</v>

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00:14:25.763 --> 00:14:28.155
<v Bendixen, Carmen>reading because it like,
it just makes me smile.</v>

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00:14:30.235 --> 00:14:35.138
<v Bendixen, Carmen>But I was wondering two things.
Were there any new schools that joined</v>

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00:14:35.138 --> 00:14:39.350
<v Bendixen, Carmen>the challenges here?
Are you guys you guys have really grown</v>

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00:14:39.350 --> 00:14:43.769
<v Bendixen, Carmen>over the years so that you're covering
like the whole district,</v>

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00:14:43.769 --> 00:14:49.156
<v Bendixen, Carmen>but is there is there pockets or or
schools that you still need to need to be</v>

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00:14:49.156 --> 00:14:49.915
<v Bendixen, Carmen>brought in?</v>

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00:14:51.035 --> 00:14:55.799
<v Jenny Craig>So, okay,
the total schools that we could have in</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/96-1
00:14:55.799 --> 00:15:01.515
<v Jenny Craig>the challenge would be 74.
And right now we have 72 who are</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/96-2
00:15:01.515 --> 00:15:07.327
<v Jenny Craig>regularly participating.
The 2 that opt out have, like they,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/96-3
00:15:07.327 --> 00:15:09.995
<v Jenny Craig>it's an optional program. So</v>

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00:15:09.915 --> 00:15:10.715
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah, yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/98-0
00:15:10.635 --> 00:15:15.362
<v Jenny Craig>And the two that opt out,
they feel like either it's too much work</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/98-1
00:15:15.362 --> 00:15:20.089
<v Jenny Craig>for their capacity or the,
and also that our reading levels aren't</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/98-2
00:15:20.089 --> 00:15:23.193
<v Jenny Craig>necessarily the right fit for their
school,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/98-3
00:15:23.193 --> 00:15:28.555
<v Jenny Craig>because they are the two schools that
generally don't participate are quite</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/97-0
00:15:25.435 --> 00:15:25.915
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Mhm.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/100-0
00:15:29.275 --> 00:15:33.168
<v Jenny Craig>High performing, so they, they not,
and they're not always, they're not,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/99-0
00:15:32.035 --> 00:15:32.395
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Mm.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/100-1
00:15:33.168 --> 00:15:35.995
<v Jenny Craig>they're also,
so basically they're not really our...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/103-0
00:15:37.275 --> 00:15:40.451
<v Jenny Craig>highest priority schools. So we just,
you know, I talk to,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/101-0
00:15:39.755 --> 00:15:40.155
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Okay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/103-1
00:15:40.451 --> 00:15:44.543
<v Jenny Craig>we invite them every year and they decide,
make their decisions every year.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/103-2
00:15:44.543 --> 00:15:49.065
<v Jenny Craig>We almost had one of them join this year,
but they're thinking about how they would</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/103-3
00:15:49.065 --> 00:15:51.756
<v Jenny Craig>do that.
It's probably not going to involve their</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/103-4
00:15:51.756 --> 00:15:54.933
<v Jenny Craig>school librarian because he doesn't have
the capacity. So,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/103-5
00:15:54.933 --> 00:15:57.355
<v Jenny Craig>and that's also something across the
system.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/102-0
00:15:54.955 --> 00:15:55.195
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Mm.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/104-0
00:15:57.835 --> 00:16:01.723
<v Jenny Craig>that we're seeing is in some schools
we're needing to end up working with,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/104-1
00:16:01.723 --> 00:16:05.819
<v Jenny Craig>I mean, this has always been the case.
Sometimes we work with teachers instead</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/104-2
00:16:05.819 --> 00:16:08.670
<v Jenny Craig>of librarians,
if that's how that works better in that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/104-3
00:16:08.670 --> 00:16:12.455
<v Jenny Craig>school. This year for the first time,
we actually had a group of parents</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/104-4
00:16:12.455 --> 00:16:13.595
<v Jenny Craig>running one, running a</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/105-0
00:16:15.435 --> 00:16:16.075
<v Jenny Craig>Running.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/106-0
00:16:17.195 --> 00:16:21.214
<v Jenny Craig>running basically,
like they were the ones running it out of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/106-1
00:16:21.214 --> 00:16:25.365
<v Jenny Craig>one of the schools and that,
we've been reluctant to move that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/106-2
00:16:25.365 --> 00:16:28.725
<v Jenny Craig>direction,
partly because parent turnover is every</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/106-3
00:16:28.725 --> 00:16:32.809
<v Jenny Craig>year with elementary school or maybe
every two years at most,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/106-4
00:16:32.809 --> 00:16:33.995
<v Jenny Craig>and partly because</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/107-0
00:16:35.035 --> 00:16:38.298
<v Jenny Craig>One of the most important things to
remember about this program,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/107-1
00:16:38.298 --> 00:16:42.414
<v Jenny Craig>and it is really hard to remember because
there's so much joy in the competition,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/107-2
00:16:42.414 --> 00:16:46.430
<v Jenny Craig>is that the competition is the incentive,
but it isn't the point, and it isn't,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/107-3
00:16:46.430 --> 00:16:49.844
<v Jenny Craig>and like performing well in the
competition isn't one of the goals.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/107-4
00:16:49.844 --> 00:16:52.454
<v Jenny Craig>It's not one of the things that we're
like, I mean,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/107-5
00:16:52.454 --> 00:16:55.115
<v Jenny Craig>we track it because it happens, right?
Like, and we,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/109-0
00:16:55.515 --> 00:16:58.170
<v Jenny Craig>care about the kids and we care about
their excitement.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/109-1
00:16:58.170 --> 00:17:00.731
<v Jenny Craig>But the importance is that they're
reading the books.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/109-2
00:17:00.731 --> 00:17:04.335
<v Jenny Craig>And so when parents get involved,
sometimes they're just really excited for</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/109-3
00:17:04.335 --> 00:17:08.081
<v Jenny Craig>their kids and things get a little bit
too intensely into the competition when</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/109-4
00:17:08.081 --> 00:17:11.115
<v Jenny Craig>we're intensely about the reading and not
about the rest of it.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/108-0
00:17:08.835 --> 00:17:09.035
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/109-5
00:17:11.115 --> 00:17:14.861
<v Jenny Craig>So we're really intentional while working
with parent groups to make sure that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/109-6
00:17:14.861 --> 00:17:18.275
<v Jenny Craig>everybody's on the same page.
And they were great this year. So I don't</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/110-0
00:17:18.475 --> 00:17:22.356
<v Jenny Craig>So, but that's it,
but it will take more if we are starts to</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/110-1
00:17:22.356 --> 00:17:27.318
<v Jenny Craig>see more of that switch that takes more
front loading time with with with our</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/110-2
00:17:27.318 --> 00:17:32.026
<v Jenny Craig>team as well to just make sure to keep
that everybody's on the same page.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/110-3
00:17:32.026 --> 00:17:35.843
<v Jenny Craig>And we do and with that school,
the principal was involved.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/110-4
00:17:35.843 --> 00:17:39.915
<v Jenny Craig>So the principal was the basic basically
the school liaison. So</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/113-0
00:17:40.315 --> 00:17:44.146
<v Jenny Craig>It's challenging.
And so that I think if we were to get one</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/113-1
00:17:44.146 --> 00:17:48.999
<v Jenny Craig>of the other two remaining schools,
that would have to be a similar kind of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/113-2
00:17:48.999 --> 00:17:53.788
<v Jenny Craig>like non Librarian led situation.
So hard to say whether they will join us</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/111-0
00:17:51.115 --> 00:17:51.275
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Mm.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/113-3
00:17:53.788 --> 00:17:54.235
<v Jenny Craig>or not.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/112-0
00:17:55.195 --> 00:17:55.595
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Okay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/114-0
00:17:57.035 --> 00:18:01.678
<v Bendixen, Carmen>And then my other question was about,
you said the chat,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/114-1
00:18:01.678 --> 00:18:08.031
<v Bendixen, Carmen>you talked about the challenges that you
face this year and about the reading</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/114-2
00:18:08.031 --> 00:18:13.163
<v Bendixen, Carmen>level issue that schools mentioned.
I was wondering if, is it,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/114-3
00:18:13.163 --> 00:18:14.955
<v Bendixen, Carmen>is the number of books</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/115-0
00:18:15.835 --> 00:18:18.235
<v Bendixen, Carmen>I guess, have you looked at considering?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/116-0
00:18:19.555 --> 00:18:20.875
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Fewer than 8 bucks.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/117-0
00:18:22.235 --> 00:18:22.955
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Is that?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/118-0
00:18:22.235 --> 00:18:25.782
<v Jenny Craig>So originally, yeah,
so originally it was 10 up until the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/118-1
00:18:25.782 --> 00:18:28.961
<v Jenny Craig>pandemic.
We had 10 books every year and that we do</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/118-2
00:18:28.961 --> 00:18:33.608
<v Jenny Craig>have those conversations pretty regularly
with schools. So in the pandemic,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/118-3
00:18:33.608 --> 00:18:38.133
<v Jenny Craig>we went down to seven for one year,
which is basically there are teams of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/118-4
00:18:38.133 --> 00:18:41.129
<v Jenny Craig>seven.
So it was basically one book per kid on a</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/118-5
00:18:41.129 --> 00:18:41.435
<v Jenny Craig>team.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/119-0
00:18:42.395 --> 00:18:46.509
<v Jenny Craig>And the feedback after trying that was
that eight books seemed better,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/119-1
00:18:46.509 --> 00:18:50.217
<v Jenny Craig>so that there's that sort of
encouragement to read two books as</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/119-2
00:18:50.217 --> 00:18:53.462
<v Jenny Craig>opposed to maybe just one.
It seems to be working well.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/119-3
00:18:53.462 --> 00:18:57.807
<v Jenny Craig>The eight books seems to be working well.
There were a couple of different</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/119-4
00:18:57.807 --> 00:18:59.835
<v Jenny Craig>challenges with the reading levels.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/120-0
00:19:00.635 --> 00:19:06.381
<v Jenny Craig>One of them is that we did deliberately
pick a couple of books that have pretty</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/120-1
00:19:06.381 --> 00:19:06.955
<v Jenny Craig>intense.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/121-0
00:19:09.035 --> 00:19:11.822
<v Jenny Craig>subject matter.
So we did have Efrain Divided,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/121-1
00:19:11.822 --> 00:19:15.915
<v Jenny Craig>which is about deportation.
And we have and we had a book called The</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/121-2
00:19:15.915 --> 00:19:19.947
<v Jenny Craig>School for Invisible Boys,
which tackles homophobia pretty straight</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/121-3
00:19:19.947 --> 00:19:23.209
<v Jenny Craig>on. And they required a little bit more,
the teachers,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/121-4
00:19:23.209 --> 00:19:27.835
<v Jenny Craig>the school librarians felt like they
required a little bit more pre-teaching.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/122-0
00:19:28.155 --> 00:19:31.211
<v Jenny Craig>a little bit more hands-on conversations
with the kids,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/122-1
00:19:31.211 --> 00:19:34.976
<v Jenny Craig>which they're not objecting to,
but they don't actually have time in</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/122-2
00:19:34.976 --> 00:19:38.850
<v Jenny Craig>their schedule to add that in very well.
So some of it was that. Also,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/122-3
00:19:38.850 --> 00:19:42.943
<v Jenny Craig>we had a couple of shorter books that we
thought were lower reading level,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/122-4
00:19:42.943 --> 00:19:47.035
<v Jenny Craig>but weren't really lower reading level.
One of them is very fantasy-based.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/123-0
00:19:47.835 --> 00:19:51.614
<v Jenny Craig>the Guardian test and we thought, oh,
this is super Pokemon-like,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/123-1
00:19:51.614 --> 00:19:54.878
<v Jenny Craig>the kids will really get into this.
But because so many,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/123-2
00:19:54.878 --> 00:19:58.772
<v Jenny Craig>because it is a totally fantasy world,
if you're trying to read it,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/123-3
00:19:58.772 --> 00:20:02.436
<v Jenny Craig>all of the terms are not,
a lot of the terms are not terms that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/123-4
00:20:02.436 --> 00:20:06.158
<v Jenny Craig>people are familiar with.
So like all of the animals are fantasy</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/123-5
00:20:06.158 --> 00:20:07.475
<v Jenny Craig>animals, so they're not</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/124-0
00:20:07.675 --> 00:20:11.583
<v Jenny Craig>bears. They're, you know, bear,
I can't remember what they did instead of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/124-1
00:20:11.583 --> 00:20:14.487
<v Jenny Craig>bears, but like, you know,
they're not directly bears.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/124-2
00:20:14.487 --> 00:20:17.656
<v Jenny Craig>They're not direct.
So it turned out to be more challenging</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/124-3
00:20:17.656 --> 00:20:21.828
<v Jenny Craig>for some of our earlier readers when
they're trying to interpret the words and</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/124-4
00:20:21.828 --> 00:20:25.894
<v Jenny Craig>then it turns out the words aren't
actually words that they're familiar with</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/124-5
00:20:25.894 --> 00:20:26.475
<v Jenny Craig>as well. So</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/125-0
00:20:26.515 --> 00:20:30.440
<v Jenny Craig>It's that sort of like looking,
we need to look more carefully at making</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/125-1
00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:32.805
<v Jenny Craig>sure that we have some books that are
more,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/125-2
00:20:32.805 --> 00:20:36.085
<v Jenny Craig>that are really straightforward and are
very easy to access.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/125-3
00:20:36.085 --> 00:20:38.665
<v Jenny Craig>And we need to make sure that when we're
doing,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/125-4
00:20:38.665 --> 00:20:43.020
<v Jenny Craig>it doesn't mean that we're not going to
pick books that have big topics in them,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/125-5
00:20:43.020 --> 00:20:44.955
<v Jenny Craig>but we have to be a little bit more,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/127-0
00:20:45.595 --> 00:20:51.059
<v Jenny Craig>thoughtful about making sure that that's
not every book, that that's, you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/127-1
00:20:51.059 --> 00:20:55.907
<v Jenny Craig>that there's not that kind of teaching
required for most of the books.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/127-2
00:20:55.907 --> 00:21:00.210
<v Jenny Craig>We want this to be as much as possible,
optional, independent,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/127-3
00:21:00.210 --> 00:21:04.239
<v Jenny Craig>let the kids be able to,
let the kids opt to read these as</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/127-4
00:21:04.239 --> 00:21:05.195
<v Jenny Craig>independently.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/128-0
00:21:05.435 --> 00:21:09.484
<v Jenny Craig>without needing a lot of extra help for
them. So that's just a re-centering.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/128-1
00:21:09.484 --> 00:21:13.480
<v Jenny Craig>There is a lot of really exciting
publishing going on in middle grade right</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/128-2
00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:17.792
<v Jenny Craig>now and has been for the last few years.
So that is a big challenge for selection</v>

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00:21:17.792 --> 00:21:20.894
<v Jenny Craig>because we get super excited,
but then we have to be like,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/128-4
00:21:20.894 --> 00:21:25.048
<v Jenny Craig>wait a minute, if I was a, you know,
if I was a basically a rising 4th grader,</v>

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00:21:25.048 --> 00:21:29.360
<v Jenny Craig>where I've just started 4th grade and I'm
at a third grade reading level and I've</v>

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00:21:29.360 --> 00:21:29.675
<v Jenny Craig>never,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/129-0
00:21:30.235 --> 00:21:34.234
<v Jenny Craig>And I don't have a lot of background in
American history or world history for</v>

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00:21:34.234 --> 00:21:36.899
<v Jenny Craig>that matter.
And I'm reading this book while I have</v>

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00:21:36.899 --> 00:21:41.205
<v Jenny Craig>any idea what's going on in it. You know,
like just what context am I starting from</v>

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00:21:41.205 --> 00:21:43.717
<v Jenny Craig>in order to have those conversations.
So anyway,</v>

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00:21:43.717 --> 00:21:46.075
<v Jenny Craig>that's what we keep having to recenter
those.</v>

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00:21:50.555 --> 00:21:51.355
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Thanks, Jenny.</v>

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00:21:54.955 --> 00:22:00.283
<v Tali Hairston>Anything else for Jenny besides just
wanting to encourage your passion and</v>

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00:22:00.283 --> 00:22:06.180
<v Tali Hairston>energy for this because it is infectious
and that's why we do this work as a board</v>

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00:22:04.075 --> 00:22:04.395
<v Jenny Craig>Yeah.</v>

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00:22:06.180 --> 00:22:12.006
<v Tali Hairston>is to make sure folks like yourself can
run programs like this that really impact</v>

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00:22:12.006 --> 00:22:13.995
<v Tali Hairston>all of our citizens and give</v>

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00:22:14.955 --> 00:22:21.995
<v Tali Hairston>folks a chance at literacy in a vibrant
way. So any other thoughts for Jenny?</v>

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00:22:26.075 --> 00:22:28.395
<v Tali Hairston>Okay. Thank you, Jenny.</v>

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00:22:27.315 --> 00:22:29.835
<v Jenny Craig>Thank you very much for your time.
Thank you.</v>

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00:22:30.915 --> 00:22:31.675
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you, Jenny.</v>

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00:22:31.995 --> 00:22:32.555
<v Jenny Craig>Thank you.</v>

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00:22:34.555 --> 00:22:39.211
<v Tali Hairston>Okay, well we have no old business.
So let's get to new business.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>We have our first quarter 2026 levy
report.</v>

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00:22:45.195 --> 00:22:46.795
<v Tali Hairston>And I believe that is Elisa.</v>

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00:22:49.435 --> 00:22:51.115
<v Tali Hairston>Be called to the panel.</v>

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00:22:59.235 --> 00:22:59.755
<v Tali Hairston>There we are.</v>

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00:23:00.635 --> 00:23:03.197
<v Elisa Murray>Hi everyone,
I had a small glitch because I'm in</v>

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00:23:03.197 --> 00:23:05.915
<v Elisa Murray>Laura's office. How are you doing?
Can you hear me?</v>

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00:23:05.515 --> 00:23:07.435
<v Tali Hairston>Good, good to see you. We can hear you.</v>

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00:23:07.275 --> 00:23:11.666
<v Elisa Murray>All right. Yeah, good to see everyone.
Yeah,</v>

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00:23:07.355 --> 00:23:07.995
<v Faith Pettis>We can.</v>

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00:23:11.666 --> 00:23:18.398
<v Elisa Murray>I'm excited to just talk a little bit
about the Q1 2026 levy report,</v>

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00:23:18.398 --> 00:23:23.277
<v Elisa Murray>which was a big quarter around levies in
general.</v>

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00:23:23.277 --> 00:23:28.155
<v Elisa Murray>So this is the final year of our seven
year 2019.</v>

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00:23:28.675 --> 00:23:35.160
<v Elisa Murray>million levy, as you all know. And in Q1,
we spent about $9.</v>

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00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:41.645
<v Elisa Murray>6 million for the 2019 levy and $75,
000 from the 2012 levy.</v>

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00:23:41.645 --> 00:23:48.555
<v Elisa Murray>And I think we made some good progress on
some ongoing projects.</v>

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00:23:48.635 --> 00:23:54.235
<v Elisa Murray>and also some really nice results from
indicators of key library use.</v>

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00:23:54.235 --> 00:24:00.075
<v Elisa Murray>So I'll just kind of outline a few of
those in the main levy categories,</v>

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00:24:00.075 --> 00:24:05.835
<v Elisa Murray>and then we'll be open to questions.
And I just want to shout out David</v>

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00:24:05.835 --> 00:24:08.235
<v Elisa Murray>Kristin, who is a huge help in</v>

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00:24:08.555 --> 00:24:13.238
<v Elisa Murray>contributing to the levy report,
especially in the area of statistics and</v>

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00:24:13.238 --> 00:24:17.542
<v Elisa Murray>helping develop interesting illustrations
and graphics around that.</v>

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00:24:17.542 --> 00:24:21.782
<v Elisa Murray>So under hours and access,
and we have a page that summarizes some</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/150-3
00:24:21.782 --> 00:24:25.643
<v Elisa Murray>of the key indicators.
So the number of active library users</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/150-4
00:24:25.643 --> 00:24:27.035
<v Elisa Murray>continues to increase.</v>

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00:24:27.435 --> 00:24:31.949
<v Elisa Murray>about 12% compared to the first quarter
of 2025. We had 340,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/151-1
00:24:31.949 --> 00:24:37.869
<v Elisa Murray>000 active library users in the last year.
So that includes folks who check out</v>

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00:24:37.869 --> 00:24:41.643
<v Elisa Murray>books or use their library cards in any
other way,</v>

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00:24:41.643 --> 00:24:45.195
<v Elisa Murray>such as to access databases or online
programs.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/151-4
00:24:45.195 --> 00:24:48.155
<v Elisa Murray>Digital checkouts continued to increase.</v>

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00:24:48.435 --> 00:24:52.279
<v Elisa Murray>and also the number of physical and
digital borrowers,</v>

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00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:58.079
<v Elisa Murray>even though our physical checkouts have
declined a little bit as you would expect.</v>

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00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:01.922
<v Elisa Murray>We had 900,
000 in-person visits in the first quarter.</v>

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00:25:01.922 --> 00:25:07.652
<v Elisa Murray>That's A 7% increase compared to Q1 2025.
A peak day for in-person visits was not</v>

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00:25:07.652 --> 00:25:11.915
<v Elisa Murray>surprisingly February 11th,
which was the Super Bowl parade.</v>

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00:25:12.475 --> 00:25:15.018
<v Elisa Murray>We had 4,
100 people visiting the Central Library</v>

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00:25:15.018 --> 00:25:17.968
<v Elisa Murray>that day, and of course, many,
many other people outside.</v>

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00:25:17.968 --> 00:25:20.715
<v Elisa Murray>It was a really exciting day for those
who were here.</v>

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00:25:21.995 --> 00:25:26.778
<v Elisa Murray>And I don't think our increase in
in-person visits was just due to that one</v>

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00:25:26.778 --> 00:25:29.610
<v Elisa Murray>day.
We did make some modest changes to open</v>

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00:25:29.610 --> 00:25:32.945
<v Elisa Murray>hours at three branches in the Mid City
East region.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/154-3
00:25:32.945 --> 00:25:38.106
<v Elisa Murray>We added a day of service at Montlake and
then reduced hours at Douglas Truth and</v>

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00:25:38.106 --> 00:25:40.875
<v Elisa Murray>Capitol Hill to improve staffing
stability.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/155-0
00:25:41.435 --> 00:25:46.350
<v Elisa Murray>We now have 14 branches or library
locations that are open seven days a week.</v>

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00:25:46.350 --> 00:25:50.320
<v Elisa Murray>The use of pickup lockers continues to
grow. We had almost 10,</v>

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00:25:50.320 --> 00:25:54.920
<v Elisa Murray>000 locker-supported checkouts.
Our social services team continues to do</v>

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00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:59.835
<v Elisa Murray>really wonderful work connecting patrons
to lifeline resources and community.</v>

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00:26:00.395 --> 00:26:04.322
<v Elisa Murray>through interactions, referrals,
welcoming programs such as Coffee and</v>

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00:26:04.322 --> 00:26:07.586
<v Elisa Murray>Conversations and Crafternoons.
I've been able to look at,</v>

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00:26:07.586 --> 00:26:11.568
<v Elisa Murray>we have some wonderful images showing
some of what is produced at these</v>

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00:26:11.568 --> 00:26:14.500
<v Elisa Murray>Crafternoons.
And then they're continuing to provide</v>

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00:26:14.500 --> 00:26:19.035
<v Elisa Murray>life-saving overdose prevention supplies,
distributing almost 1400 naloxone kits.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/157-0
00:26:19.755 --> 00:26:23.733
<v Elisa Murray>in collaboration with King County Seattle
Public Health.</v>

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00:26:23.733 --> 00:26:27.572
<v Elisa Murray>One of our community resource specialists,
Lee Nguyen,</v>

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00:26:27.572 --> 00:26:32.737
<v Elisa Murray>received the Washington Library
Association Outstanding Service Award for</v>

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00:26:32.737 --> 00:26:38.390
<v Elisa Murray>this work in Q1 as well. In collections,
continue to make investments in digital</v>

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00:26:38.390 --> 00:26:39.995
<v Elisa Murray>and physical materials.</v>

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00:26:40.435 --> 00:26:44.160
<v Elisa Murray>while, you know,
responding to and managing the, you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/158-1
00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:48.390
<v Elisa Murray>continued growing interest in digital
books and digital materials.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/158-2
00:26:48.390 --> 00:26:53.251
<v Elisa Murray>Digital checkouts continue to grow.
And I think what's really interesting is</v>

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00:26:53.251 --> 00:26:56.155
<v Elisa Murray>you can see one pager on,
let's see if I can.</v>

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00:26:58.315 --> 00:27:04.431
<v Elisa Murray>Figure out the page number. Page 10,
we looked at the share of audio books</v>

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00:27:04.431 --> 00:27:09.406
<v Elisa Murray>compared to e-books,
because audio books are responsible for</v>

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00:27:09.406 --> 00:27:14.217
<v Elisa Murray>an increasing share of our digital
checkouts. And in 2025,</v>

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00:27:14.217 --> 00:27:19.355
<v Elisa Murray>the library's e-audiobook checkouts were
49% of digital books.</v>

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00:27:19.675 --> 00:27:23.436
<v Elisa Murray>And if you break it out by category,
by audience,</v>

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00:27:23.436 --> 00:27:29.079
<v Elisa Murray>adult fiction and adult nonfiction
e-audiobooks outpaced e-book checkouts,</v>

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00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:34.645
<v Elisa Murray>just barely for the first time.
So we kind of break that down and look at</v>

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00:27:34.645 --> 00:27:39.686
<v Elisa Murray>some interesting possible reasons for
that. And we actually did a,</v>

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00:27:39.686 --> 00:27:41.115
<v Elisa Murray>Tom did a City Cast</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/162-0
00:27:42.795 --> 00:27:46.139
<v Elisa Murray>If you're familiar with that,
it's a new podcast,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/162-1
00:27:46.139 --> 00:27:50.552
<v Elisa Murray>a new source in Seattle.
He did an interview with City Cast about</v>

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00:27:50.552 --> 00:27:55.500
<v Elisa Murray>that particular issue and did also
reiterate that eAudiobooks is reading.</v>

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00:27:55.500 --> 00:28:00.315
<v Elisa Murray>It does count. So we're all clear on that.
Under technology and access,</v>

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00:28:00.555 --> 00:28:04.720
<v Elisa Murray>Our integrated library system project is
very much on its way.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/166-1
00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.818
<v Elisa Murray>We concluded successful contract
negotiations with Clarivate,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/166-2
00:28:08.818 --> 00:28:13.380
<v Elisa Murray>announced the selection of their
integrated library system, Polaris,</v>

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00:28:13.380 --> 00:28:17.941
<v Elisa Murray>as the future replacement.
So we're moving into implementation phase</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/166-4
00:28:17.941 --> 00:28:19.395
<v Elisa Murray>for that. Patrons used</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/167-0
00:28:20.795 --> 00:28:25.143
<v Elisa Murray>102,000 computer hours in Q1,
and they printed almost 600,</v>

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00:28:25.143 --> 00:28:30.154
<v Elisa Murray>000 million pages, sorry, 600,000 pages,
not 600,000 million pages.</v>

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00:28:30.154 --> 00:28:34.502
<v Elisa Murray>On library printers,
this is a 12% increase compared to Q1</v>

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00:28:34.502 --> 00:28:37.966
<v Elisa Murray>2025.
Our hotspot program continues to be very</v>

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00:28:37.966 --> 00:28:38.555
<v Elisa Murray>popular.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/168-0
00:28:39.355 --> 00:28:41.075
<v Elisa Murray>Patrons checked out 2000.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/169-0
00:28:42.315 --> 00:28:48.527
<v Elisa Murray>hotspots from our general collection,
and we provided 80 new long-term hotspot</v>

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00:28:48.527 --> 00:28:54.581
<v Elisa Murray>loans through our outreach program.
Our Kaleidoscope Play and Learn program,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/169-2
00:28:54.581 --> 00:28:58.591
<v Elisa Murray>you know,
continues to provide really holistic and</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/169-3
00:28:58.591 --> 00:29:05.195
<v Elisa Murray>wonderful child development sessions at 7
branches in four locations with partners.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/170-0
00:29:05.475 --> 00:29:10.072
<v Elisa Murray>We also offered over 340 story times at
our locations and in the community.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/170-1
00:29:10.072 --> 00:29:13.883
<v Elisa Murray>Our major maintenance and routine
maintenance teams were very,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/170-2
00:29:13.883 --> 00:29:17.633
<v Elisa Murray>very busy in Q1. The university branch,
of course, continues.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/170-3
00:29:17.633 --> 00:29:21.504
<v Elisa Murray>We completed the seismic retrofit portion
of the project in Q1.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/170-4
00:29:21.504 --> 00:29:26.222
<v Elisa Murray>And my colleague Bennett Barr has been
doing some really great updates on our</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/170-5
00:29:26.222 --> 00:29:29.005
<v Elisa Murray>blog.
I think another one is coming soon with</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/170-6
00:29:29.005 --> 00:29:30.275
<v Elisa Murray>lots of photos of the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/171-0
00:29:30.275 --> 00:29:34.563
<v Elisa Murray>work in progress,
so I encourage you to check that out.</v>

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00:29:34.563 --> 00:29:38.315
<v Elisa Murray>And the branch is expected to reopen in
Q3 2026.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/172-0
00:29:40.875 --> 00:29:46.558
<v Elisa Murray>The HVAC installations in the Fremont and
West Seattle branches received final</v>

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00:29:46.558 --> 00:29:49.867
<v Elisa Murray>permits in Q1.
They'll be publicly bid in Q2,</v>

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00:29:49.867 --> 00:29:54.255
<v Elisa Murray>so that's making progress.
We also began replacing the aged,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/172-3
00:29:54.255 --> 00:29:59.075
<v Elisa Murray>the aging HVAC system at Rainier Beach,
and that'll be finished in</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/173-0
00:30:00.075 --> 00:30:05.034
<v Elisa Murray>Q2 with an upcoming closure in June.
And then our facility and janitorial</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/173-1
00:30:05.034 --> 00:30:10.260
<v Elisa Murray>custodial teams continue to do really
important work in keeping our libraries</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/173-2
00:30:10.260 --> 00:30:14.281
<v Elisa Murray>safe, clean, and welcoming.
And they completed more than 3,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/173-3
00:30:14.281 --> 00:30:15.755
<v Elisa Murray>300 work orders in Q1.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/174-0
00:30:16.955 --> 00:30:20.738
<v Elisa Murray>And then we continue to make progress on
strategic plan initiatives,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/174-1
00:30:20.738 --> 00:30:23.974
<v Elisa Murray>many of which overlap with what I've
already talked about,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/174-2
00:30:23.974 --> 00:30:27.976
<v Elisa Murray>including expanding language access,
refining processes for planning and</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/174-3
00:30:27.976 --> 00:30:31.540
<v Elisa Murray>promoting library programs,
the back end of how we get all these</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/174-4
00:30:31.540 --> 00:30:34.940
<v Elisa Murray>programs into our calendar and then
promote them effectively,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/174-5
00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:36.475
<v Elisa Murray>enhancing security training,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/175-0
00:30:36.795 --> 00:30:41.876
<v Elisa Murray>and then finishing up the first year of
the Story Squad literacy project with</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/175-1
00:30:41.876 --> 00:30:44.807
<v Elisa Murray>Seattle Public Schools. And then,
of course,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/175-2
00:30:44.807 --> 00:30:49.302
<v Elisa Murray>the 2026 library levy was proposed and
will be on the August ballot.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/175-3
00:30:49.302 --> 00:30:53.275
<v Elisa Murray>And the final piece of that happened in
the beginning of Q2.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/177-0
00:30:54.955 --> 00:30:59.337
<v Elisa Murray>So that's my brief summary and highlights,
and then you're welcome to ask any</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/177-1
00:30:59.337 --> 00:31:02.315
<v Elisa Murray>questions or share any observations from
the report.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/178-0
00:31:06.435 --> 00:31:07.035
<v Tali Hairston>Go ahead, Fay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/180-0
00:31:06.795 --> 00:31:09.870
<v Faith Pettis>Can I ask a question?
When I was reading the packet,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/180-1
00:31:09.870 --> 00:31:13.698
<v Faith Pettis>I found that statistic on the audio book
increase so interesting.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/180-2
00:31:13.698 --> 00:31:17.875
<v Faith Pettis>And I know it says there that they might
be more expensive than ebooks.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/179-0
00:31:13.915 --> 00:31:14.395
<v Elisa Murray>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/202-0
00:31:20.238 --> 00:31:23.679
<v Faith Pettis>more about is are we talking
exponentially more expensive and do they</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/202-1
00:31:23.679 --> 00:31:26.678
<v Faith Pettis>have the same kind of license issue that
digital books have?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/249-0
00:31:27.238 --> 00:31:30.484
<v Elisa Murray>Yeah,
so I can't speak with a lot of expertise</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/212-0
00:31:27.718 --> 00:31:28.118
<v Faith Pettis>Rick.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/249-1
00:31:30.484 --> 00:31:33.524
<v Elisa Murray>about that,
but I can send you a follow up.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/249-2
00:31:33.524 --> 00:31:38.359
<v Elisa Murray>From what I understand, and Rick,
you're welcome to chime in as well.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/249-3
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:43.471
<v Elisa Murray>They do tend to be more expensive.
I think e-audiobooks increasingly have</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/249-4
00:31:43.471 --> 00:31:48.998
<v Elisa Murray>more of the licensing than as the e-books,
and that didn't used to be the case.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/302-0
00:31:49.638 --> 00:31:54.734
<v Elisa Murray>but they are two different kinds of
licensing models. Interestingly,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/302-1
00:31:54.734 --> 00:31:59.977
<v Elisa Murray>I think e-audio books have tended to be
some of the more popular ones,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/302-2
00:31:59.977 --> 00:32:03.966
<v Elisa Murray>more available through always available
on OverDrive.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/302-3
00:32:03.966 --> 00:32:09.579
<v Elisa Murray>So this wasn't included in the Q1,
but a couple of our most popular e-audio</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/302-4
00:32:09.579 --> 00:32:12.238
<v Elisa Murray>books in Q1 were The Heated Rivalry.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/363-0
00:32:12.518 --> 00:32:17.138
<v Elisa Murray>e-audiobooks. We have, I think,
the first three in that series available</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/363-1
00:32:17.138 --> 00:32:20.367
<v Elisa Murray>right now.
But I can send you a quick follow-up on</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/318-0
00:32:20.038 --> 00:32:20.678
<v Faith Pettis>Justin.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/363-2
00:32:20.367 --> 00:32:25.557
<v Elisa Murray>that with help from our collections team,
or if anyone is online now and wants to</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/389-0
00:32:23.798 --> 00:32:26.506
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah, sorry,
and I don't mean to put you on the spot</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/363-3
00:32:25.557 --> 00:32:30.748
<v Elisa Murray>chime in. But it's, oh, no, absolutely.
Yeah. It's very interesting. Yeah. Sorry,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/389-1
00:32:26.506 --> 00:32:30.186
<v Faith Pettis>about that. It's just such an interesting,
and I know we've been, yeah,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/389-2
00:32:30.186 --> 00:32:33.969
<v Faith Pettis>I know we've been thinking about how to
deal with the digital book issue,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/363-4
00:32:30.748 --> 00:32:31.318
<v Elisa Murray>go ahead.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/389-3
00:32:33.969 --> 00:32:37.546
<v Faith Pettis>and I'm hoping as we do that,
we're also thinking about audiobooks as</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/389-4
00:32:37.546 --> 00:32:39.949
<v Faith Pettis>well,
if this is going to be a licensing issue</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/374-0
00:32:38.118 --> 00:32:38.238
<v Elisa Murray>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/389-5
00:32:39.949 --> 00:32:40.358
<v Faith Pettis>as well.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/444-0
00:32:40.798 --> 00:32:45.239
<v Elisa Murray>No, absolutely. I think our team is very,
very thoughtful about that and in terms</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/444-1
00:32:45.239 --> 00:32:49.409
<v Elisa Murray>of the choices that they make and what
they make always available and really</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/398-0
00:32:46.558 --> 00:32:46.998
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/444-2
00:32:49.409 --> 00:32:52.008
<v Elisa Murray>responding to our patrons' needs and
interests,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/444-3
00:32:52.008 --> 00:32:56.016
<v Elisa Murray>as you can see with things like that,
the Heated Rivalry books are always</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/444-4
00:32:56.016 --> 00:32:58.670
<v Elisa Murray>available.
And then I think Braiding Sweetgrass,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/444-5
00:32:58.670 --> 00:33:01.486
<v Elisa Murray>you know,
we joke that about 20% of Seattle has now</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/431-0
00:32:59.598 --> 00:33:00.038
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/444-6
00:33:01.486 --> 00:33:02.678
<v Elisa Murray>listened to that book.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/493-0
00:33:03.078 --> 00:33:07.628
<v Elisa Murray>It's been always available, I think,
for several years and continues to be</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/451-0
00:33:05.878 --> 00:33:07.318
<v Faith Pettis>Wow, interesting.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/493-1
00:33:07.628 --> 00:33:12.179
<v Elisa Murray>checked out really, really frequently.
And I know I'm a recent e-audiobook</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/493-2
00:33:12.179 --> 00:33:16.486
<v Elisa Murray>convert. It took me a long time.
And I think a lot of you can probably</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/493-3
00:33:16.486 --> 00:33:20.066
<v Elisa Murray>resonate with that,
that either you are or you know people</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/472-0
00:33:17.318 --> 00:33:17.958
<v Faith Pettis>Oh yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/493-4
00:33:20.066 --> 00:33:22.918
<v Elisa Murray>who are,
as with the rise of podcasts and just</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/499-0
00:33:23.798 --> 00:33:26.598
<v Elisa Murray>The discovery of multitasking while
listening to eAudiobooks.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/498-0
00:33:25.318 --> 00:33:27.238
<v Faith Pettis>Right, right, right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/535-0
00:33:28.118 --> 00:33:32.877
<v Rick Sheridan>So we actually have Kate Sellers,
who oversees our collection team here.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/510-0
00:33:30.758 --> 00:33:31.318
<v Elisa Murray>Oh.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/535-1
00:33:32.877 --> 00:33:37.572
<v Rick Sheridan>And Amy, if you could promote her,
she could potentially add additional</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/535-2
00:33:37.572 --> 00:33:41.158
<v Rick Sheridan>color on face question around e-audio and
e-materials.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/534-0
00:33:41.638 --> 00:33:42.758
<v Elisa Murray>That's great. Thank you, Kate.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/597-0
00:33:44.198 --> 00:33:47.754
<v Kate Sellers>Hello. It's nice to see you all.
I'm Kate Sellers.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/543-0
00:33:46.198 --> 00:33:46.838
<v Tali Hairston>Okay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/597-1
00:33:47.754 --> 00:33:51.310
<v Kate Sellers>I'm our Technical and Collection Services
Manager.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/597-2
00:33:51.310 --> 00:33:55.075
<v Kate Sellers>So it's my team who gets to do the fun
job, actually,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/597-3
00:33:55.075 --> 00:33:59.329
<v Kate Sellers>of choosing all of our titles for our
overdrive, our e-book,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/597-4
00:33:59.329 --> 00:34:03.722
<v Kate Sellers>and e-audio collections.
And they get to navigate all of these</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/580-0
00:34:00.358 --> 00:34:00.478
<v Faith Pettis>And.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/597-5
00:34:03.722 --> 00:34:04.838
<v Kate Sellers>very complicated</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/651-0
00:34:04.878 --> 00:34:11.025
<v Kate Sellers>license models. So for audio books,
it is similar to ebooks and that will buy</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/651-1
00:34:11.025 --> 00:34:17.644
<v Kate Sellers>a license that will last for a particular
amount of time or for a certain number of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/620-0
00:34:15.198 --> 00:34:15.358
<v Faith Pettis>Mm.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/651-2
00:34:17.644 --> 00:34:22.846
<v Kate Sellers>checkouts. So for a 20 month,
24 month period is common for these</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/651-3
00:34:22.846 --> 00:34:26.944
<v Kate Sellers>licenses.
They do cost two to three times more than</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/651-4
00:34:26.944 --> 00:34:28.678
<v Kate Sellers>the ebooks themselves.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/645-0
00:34:28.678 --> 00:34:29.078
<v Faith Pettis>Ell.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/686-0
00:34:29.078 --> 00:34:34.328
<v Kate Sellers>most often, not always.
The thing to keep in mind is that each</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/686-1
00:34:34.328 --> 00:34:39.494
<v Kate Sellers>publisher negotiates their own license
process and agreement.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/686-2
00:34:39.494 --> 00:34:45.411
<v Kate Sellers>So some publishers have terms that are a
little more favorable for us.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/686-3
00:34:45.411 --> 00:34:49.078
<v Kate Sellers>Some publishers have a pretty high cost
and</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/687-0
00:34:49.238 --> 00:34:49.878
<v Kate Sellers>Low.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/719-0
00:34:51.798 --> 00:34:56.695
<v Kate Sellers>low access model, I should say.
So it really just depends if we look at</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/719-1
00:34:56.695 --> 00:35:01.116
<v Kate Sellers>the particular publisher,
and it's usually a different publisher</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/719-2
00:35:01.116 --> 00:35:05.878
<v Kate Sellers>for audiobooks than it is for ebooks.
But in general, more expensive.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/717-0
00:35:03.078 --> 00:35:03.878
<v Faith Pettis>Interesting.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/759-0
00:35:07.878 --> 00:35:11.864
<v Ron >Can I can I weigh in a little bit on this
issue?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/759-1
00:35:11.864 --> 00:35:16.665
<v Ron >I know I've talked to Tom a little bit
about this as well.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/759-2
00:35:16.665 --> 00:35:22.441
<v Ron >We've begun to raise the issue within
AARP. That's another hat I wear.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/759-3
00:35:22.441 --> 00:35:26.998
<v Ron >The issue of providing for libraries,
public libraries,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/781-0
00:35:28.038 --> 00:35:35.092
<v Ron >more access and addressing the issue of
the high fees, because it affects many,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/781-1
00:35:35.092 --> 00:35:40.118
<v Ron >many of our members, myself included,
who really rely on</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/807-0
00:35:41.158 --> 00:35:46.504
<v Ron >you know,
the ability to migrate from simple print</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/807-1
00:35:46.504 --> 00:35:54.891
<v Ron >publications to large print to actually
other forms where you can actually even</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/807-2
00:35:54.891 --> 00:36:00.238
<v Ron >given liabilities in terms of your
ability to see.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/808-0
00:36:00.518 --> 00:36:00.678
<v Ron >Jill.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/829-0
00:36:02.198 --> 00:36:07.653
<v Ron >It's migrated actually up to the advocacy
policy level and the national level</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/829-1
00:36:07.653 --> 00:36:11.150
<v Ron >within ARP.
And so I'm hoping to continue to push</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/829-2
00:36:11.150 --> 00:36:14.438
<v Ron >that issue both locally as well as
nationally.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/832-0
00:36:19.318 --> 00:36:20.038
<v Tali Hairston>Thank you, Brian.</v>

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00:36:20.358 --> 00:36:23.791
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah, thank you for that information,
Kate. It's so,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/891-1
00:36:23.791 --> 00:36:27.936
<v Faith Pettis>so interesting because I do agree that
we're going to see, Ron,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/891-2
00:36:27.936 --> 00:36:31.758
<v Faith Pettis>you're spot on as the population ages and
our eyes go bad.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/856-0
00:36:28.758 --> 00:36:28.918
<v Elisa Murray>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/891-3
00:36:31.758 --> 00:36:34.608
<v Faith Pettis>I've moved from the print books to
e-books,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/891-4
00:36:34.608 --> 00:36:39.078
<v Faith Pettis>which you can brighten and make the font
bigger, to now audio books.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/916-0
00:36:39.398 --> 00:36:42.173
<v Faith Pettis>I think we're going to continue to see
that demand go up.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/892-0
00:36:41.798 --> 00:36:42.038
<v Elisa Murray>Yes.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/916-1
00:36:42.173 --> 00:36:46.000
<v Faith Pettis>So it is concerning to hear that there
are two to three times more than e-books</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/916-2
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:49.158
<v Faith Pettis>and e-books themselves are so much more
than print books. So wow.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/965-0
00:36:50.998 --> 00:36:54.313
<v Ron >Yeah,
and I know Tom's brought it up at some of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/918-0
00:36:51.478 --> 00:36:52.078
<v Faith Pettis>No.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/965-1
00:36:54.313 --> 00:36:59.149
<v Ron >our previous board meetings.
I don't know if there's been a real deep</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/930-0
00:36:55.438 --> 00:36:55.718
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/965-2
00:36:59.149 --> 00:37:03.984
<v Ron >dive into that, but, you know,
we need some advocates to push on that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/948-0
00:37:03.198 --> 00:37:03.438
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/965-3
00:37:03.984 --> 00:37:07.024
<v Ron >issue, ensure that libraries get,
you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/965-4
00:37:07.024 --> 00:37:09.718
<v Ron >fair access to the most current titles.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/971-0
00:37:10.598 --> 00:37:15.398
<v Ron >and digital materials,
and because it serves our population.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1018-0
00:37:19.638 --> 00:37:24.359
<v Kate Sellers>I don't have an update on that,
but I know Tom is part of the connection</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1018-1
00:37:24.359 --> 00:37:29.145
<v Kate Sellers>of folks who are working on that.
The Urban Library Council also recently</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/996-0
00:37:28.398 --> 00:37:28.518
<v Elisa Murray>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1018-2
00:37:29.145 --> 00:37:34.190
<v Kate Sellers>put out a statement about this that's
illuminating and helpful in conjunction</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1018-3
00:37:34.190 --> 00:37:39.170
<v Kate Sellers>with a few other library organizations
calling on publishers to address this</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1018-4
00:37:39.170 --> 00:37:39.558
<v Kate Sellers>issue.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1025-0
00:37:39.878 --> 00:37:43.501
<v Kate Sellers>So, hope,
I'm hopeful we'll see some movement on</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1025-1
00:37:43.501 --> 00:37:44.758
<v Kate Sellers>that and results.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1089-0
00:37:46.198 --> 00:37:50.209
<v Rick Sheridan>Yeah, I would just add that Tom,
Kiersten and myself have been working at</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1089-1
00:37:50.209 --> 00:37:52.812
<v Rick Sheridan>the state level on this issue pretty
intensely,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1089-2
00:37:52.812 --> 00:37:56.878
<v Rick Sheridan>have made some progress in Olympia in
terms of convincing legislators that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1089-3
00:37:56.878 --> 00:38:01.052
<v Rick Sheridan>there is an issue when it comes to the
pricing, when it comes to the models,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1089-4
00:38:01.052 --> 00:38:05.281
<v Rick Sheridan>and trying to seek some sort of redress
at the state level for what we see in</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1089-5
00:38:05.281 --> 00:38:09.401
<v Rick Sheridan>terms of all these different elements
that make it very expensive for us to</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1089-6
00:38:09.401 --> 00:38:09.998
<v Rick Sheridan>provide EU.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1095-0
00:38:10.118 --> 00:38:14.198
<v Rick Sheridan>Audio, e-materials in general,
as a library system.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1130-0
00:38:15.958 --> 00:38:19.582
<v Ron >Yeah,
and just to add a little more detail,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1130-1
00:38:19.582 --> 00:38:23.866
<v Ron >I've, you know,
spoken at length to AARP Washington</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1130-2
00:38:23.866 --> 00:38:28.644
<v Ron >Director Marguerite Rowe,
and she's briefed on the issue,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1130-3
00:38:28.644 --> 00:38:31.198
<v Ron >is fully supportive, and I have</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1158-0
00:38:33.238 --> 00:38:36.197
<v Ron >Jenny Pugh,
who I think is the chair of the Urban</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1158-1
00:38:36.197 --> 00:38:39.866
<v Ron >Libraries Council, about this issue.
She's actually one that,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1158-2
00:38:39.866 --> 00:38:43.594
<v Ron >knowing that I was with ARP,
pushed the issue and I, you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1158-3
00:38:43.594 --> 00:38:46.198
<v Ron >so there's an active conversation going
on.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1160-0
00:38:50.798 --> 00:38:50.918
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1163-0
00:38:51.158 --> 00:38:52.038
<v Tali Hairston>Thanks, Ron.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1170-0
00:38:55.238 --> 00:38:58.758
<v Tali Hairston>Any other questions or concerns to share?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1205-0
00:38:59.958 --> 00:39:05.944
<v Tali Hairston>I just want to note that the 29th for all
those listening,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1180-0
00:39:04.358 --> 00:39:04.438
<v Faith Pettis>The.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1205-1
00:39:05.944 --> 00:39:13.249
<v Tali Hairston>the 2019 levy accounts for 39.
8% of the library's total revised budget</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1205-2
00:39:13.249 --> 00:39:16.598
<v Tali Hairston>right now for this year for 2026.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1207-0
00:39:20.118 --> 00:39:21.318
<v Tali Hairston>That means something.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1212-0
00:39:24.558 --> 00:39:27.558
<v Tali Hairston>Um, and as we are approaching.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1247-0
00:39:28.638 --> 00:39:33.521
<v Tali Hairston>an opportunity to continue to think
through what's on the horizon,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1247-1
00:39:33.521 --> 00:39:39.717
<v Tali Hairston>that statistic really caught my attention.
And so I thought I just want to make note</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1247-2
00:39:39.717 --> 00:39:44.601
<v Tali Hairston>of that for those listening,
the significance of that statistic in</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1247-3
00:39:44.601 --> 00:39:46.278
<v Tali Hairston>what many believe to be</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1252-0
00:39:48.718 --> 00:39:52.918
<v Tali Hairston>an important number to carry as we move
into August.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1255-0
00:39:57.478 --> 00:39:58.958
<v Tali Hairston>Anything else?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1313-0
00:40:01.478 --> 00:40:06.479
<v Tali Hairston>Okay, thank you, Elisa and Kate.
Appreciate that sharing and we are,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1262-0
00:40:03.318 --> 00:40:03.718
<v Elisa Murray>Yeah?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1313-1
00:40:06.479 --> 00:40:11.481
<v Tali Hairston>if we are, oh, I'm sorry,
if there are no other, let me just finish,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1280-0
00:40:06.598 --> 00:40:09.615
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Kelly,
you do need to vote to approve the report,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1271-0
00:40:06.678 --> 00:40:07.558
<v Elisa Murray>Thanks, everyone.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1280-1
00:40:09.615 --> 00:40:10.038
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>please.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1289-0
00:40:11.318 --> 00:40:13.478
<v Elisa Murray>Oh, oh, sorry, I'll...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1313-2
00:40:11.481 --> 00:40:15.976
<v Tali Hairston>if there are no other further discussion
or proposed changes,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1313-3
00:40:15.976 --> 00:40:21.558
<v Tali Hairston>may I hear a motion to approve the first
quarter 2026 levy report as public?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1314-0
00:40:21.598 --> 00:40:21.798
<v Tali Hairston>Ash.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1312-0
00:40:23.278 --> 00:40:23.798
<v Bendixen, Carmen>So moved.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1316-0
00:40:27.158 --> 00:40:27.798
<v Faith Pettis>Second.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1317-0
00:40:29.438 --> 00:40:29.558
<v Ron >Good.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1327-0
00:40:30.038 --> 00:40:34.598
<v Tali Hairston>All in favor of approving this report,
raise your hand and say aye.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1331-0
00:40:37.638 --> 00:40:39.238
<v Tali Hairston>Motion passes. Thank you.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1357-0
00:40:41.878 --> 00:40:47.207
<v Tali Hairston>Now I can say thank you, Elisa.
You're welcome to step off and move to</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1370-0
00:40:46.198 --> 00:40:49.900
<v Elisa Murray>Yay, we got it approved. Thanks, everyone.
Thanks, Kate, for chiming in.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1357-1
00:40:47.207 --> 00:40:47.958
<v Tali Hairston>the right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1370-1
00:40:49.900 --> 00:40:52.386
<v Elisa Murray>Really appreciate that, your expertise.
And Ron,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1370-2
00:40:52.386 --> 00:40:56.038
<v Elisa Murray>appreciate hearing about your efforts,
which makes so much sense. Okay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1369-0
00:40:57.118 --> 00:40:57.718
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1379-0
00:41:01.318 --> 00:41:03.743
<v Tali Hairston>Okay,
next on our agenda is the Art Review</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1379-1
00:41:03.743 --> 00:41:04.758
<v Tali Hairston>Committee Charter.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1388-0
00:41:06.158 --> 00:41:09.718
<v Tali Hairston>And we will also be voting on this as
well, to approve this as well.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1392-0
00:41:14.038 --> 00:41:15.878
<v Tali Hairston>And who are we promoting?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1398-0
00:41:16.998 --> 00:41:18.518
<v Tali Hairston>for this conversation.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1405-0
00:41:17.318 --> 00:41:22.438
<v Rick Sheridan>If we could promote Sean Lanksbury and
Kate Tang, Mr. Vice President.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1407-0
00:41:23.958 --> 00:41:24.598
<v Tali Hairston>Thank you.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1408-0
00:41:28.438 --> 00:41:28.838
<v Tali Hairston>And.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1409-0
00:41:33.638 --> 00:41:34.278
<v Tali Hairston>Hi, Sean.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1412-0
00:41:35.038 --> 00:41:35.718
<v Sean Lanksbury>Hi, Tali.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1425-0
00:41:37.398 --> 00:41:42.518
<v Sean Lanksbury>Hello everyone, is Kay also live?
Before I get...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1431-0
00:41:43.638 --> 00:41:44.358
<v Sean Lanksbury>rambling here.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1433-0
00:41:43.798 --> 00:41:44.998
<v Tali Hairston>We are waiting to see her.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1445-0
00:41:45.558 --> 00:41:50.438
<v Sean Lanksbury>Okay, there she is. Okay, great.
All right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1442-0
00:41:46.758 --> 00:41:48.238
<v Tali Hairston>There we see, there's K.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1441-0
00:41:46.918 --> 00:41:47.478
<v Kai Tang>Thanks.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1479-0
00:41:52.678 --> 00:41:56.360
<v Sean Lanksbury>Hopefully,
thank you for this opportunity to speak.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1479-1
00:41:56.360 --> 00:42:00.325
<v Sean Lanksbury>I'm Sean Lanksbury.
I'm the Special Collection Services</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1479-2
00:42:00.325 --> 00:42:04.079
<v Sean Lanksbury>Manager here at SPL,
and I'm also the Art Public Art</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1479-3
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.478
<v Sean Lanksbury>Collection Manager by just dent of the
job. So,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1510-0
00:42:09.718 --> 00:42:16.520
<v Sean Lanksbury>I'm here to present changes and also a
call to reactivate our art review</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1510-1
00:42:16.520 --> 00:42:22.018
<v Sean Lanksbury>committee. Hopefully,
you've received the redlined and the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1510-2
00:42:22.018 --> 00:42:26.678
<v Sean Lanksbury>clean updated version of the document for
review.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1557-0
00:42:28.638 --> 00:42:33.349
<v Sean Lanksbury>Some background,
and I'll quote mostly from the memo here.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1557-1
00:42:33.349 --> 00:42:37.900
<v Sean Lanksbury>This committee,
its charter was established by the Board</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1557-2
00:42:37.900 --> 00:42:44.448
<v Sean Lanksbury>of Trustees following the 1998 Libraries
for All levy and had been active through</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1557-3
00:42:44.448 --> 00:42:49.239
<v Sean Lanksbury>subsequent levies.
The charter was last updated in December</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1557-4
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:49.878
<v Sean Lanksbury>of 2008.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1592-0
00:42:50.318 --> 00:42:54.279
<v Sean Lanksbury>but has fell into dormancy over the past
decade.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1592-1
00:42:54.279 --> 00:43:00.584
<v Sean Lanksbury>The committee is a core element of
standing administrative procedures at SPL,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1592-2
00:43:00.584 --> 00:43:05.273
<v Sean Lanksbury>the standard for collection and
management of public art,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1592-3
00:43:05.273 --> 00:43:09.558
<v Sean Lanksbury>which was last updated in 2015.
And in that charter,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1627-0
00:43:09.598 --> 00:43:13.641
<v Sean Lanksbury>and the procedures,
all the activities related to collection</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1627-1
00:43:13.641 --> 00:43:18.083
<v Sean Lanksbury>management and deaccession of the art
collection are guided by the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1627-2
00:43:18.083 --> 00:43:21.132
<v Sean Lanksbury>recommendations of this art review
committee.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1627-3
00:43:21.132 --> 00:43:24.579
<v Sean Lanksbury>They go to the Executive Director,
Chief Librarian,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1627-4
00:43:24.579 --> 00:43:28.358
<v Sean Lanksbury>and then ultimately to you,
the Board of Trustees. These</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1665-0
00:43:28.678 --> 00:43:34.316
<v Sean Lanksbury>Meetings were historically scheduled a
couple times a year, if not more,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1665-1
00:43:34.316 --> 00:43:40.264
<v Sean Lanksbury>if there were big issues to discuss.
And there's been a lot of work over the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1665-2
00:43:40.264 --> 00:43:45.825
<v Sean Lanksbury>past couple of years, really,
since I came on board to reestablish this</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1665-3
00:43:45.825 --> 00:43:46.598
<v Sean Lanksbury>committee.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1702-0
00:43:47.438 --> 00:43:53.620
<v Sean Lanksbury>because there's a great need to start
having conversations about around the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1702-1
00:43:53.620 --> 00:43:58.420
<v Sean Lanksbury>system, its care, its management,
what lies in the future.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1702-2
00:43:58.420 --> 00:44:03.626
<v Sean Lanksbury>And so with that in mind,
I set about just taking a look at the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1702-3
00:44:03.626 --> 00:44:06.718
<v Sean Lanksbury>pre-existing charter and seeing how it</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1741-0
00:44:06.998 --> 00:44:12.711
<v Sean Lanksbury>how it was written and where it works and
where it's a little challenging to</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1741-1
00:44:12.711 --> 00:44:18.944
<v Sean Lanksbury>restart from the original text because it
has staggered positions that are assigned</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1741-2
00:44:18.944 --> 00:44:23.842
<v Sean Lanksbury>that are appointed. And so also,
there's a need to have a greater</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1741-3
00:44:23.842 --> 00:44:27.478
<v Sean Lanksbury>facilities presence because of the
coordinating.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1780-0
00:44:27.718 --> 00:44:34.115
<v Sean Lanksbury>effort across 27 branches in the system.
So I made some recommended changes,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1780-1
00:44:34.115 --> 00:44:39.182
<v Sean Lanksbury>adjustments to the charter,
which is the to clarify that the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1780-2
00:44:39.182 --> 00:44:45.911
<v Sean Lanksbury>management role is limited to of this of
this committee is limited to the public</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1780-3
00:44:45.911 --> 00:44:47.158
<v Sean Lanksbury>art collection.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1819-0
00:44:47.958 --> 00:44:53.395
<v Sean Lanksbury>and not other art or artful features or
aspects of the library spaces,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1819-1
00:44:53.395 --> 00:44:58.067
<v Sean Lanksbury>because that's not entirely clear from
the original charter,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1819-2
00:44:58.067 --> 00:45:03.505
<v Sean Lanksbury>that we do indeed need an additional
position added to the charter for</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1819-3
00:45:03.505 --> 00:45:07.718
<v Sean Lanksbury>somebody representing the Capital
Improvement Program.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1861-0
00:45:08.118 --> 00:45:13.026
<v Sean Lanksbury>either as an ex officio position or as a
term appointment.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1861-1
00:45:13.026 --> 00:45:18.518
<v Sean Lanksbury>And that we'd like to adjust the term
lengths and cadences of the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1861-2
00:45:18.518 --> 00:45:25.174
<v Sean Lanksbury>representatives from the community in
order to conform to the expectations that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1861-3
00:45:25.174 --> 00:45:26.838
<v Sean Lanksbury>there's a new member</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1913-0
00:45:27.238 --> 00:45:31.470
<v Sean Lanksbury>sort of coming on board as one is leaving,
so that there's a refresh rate.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1913-1
00:45:31.470 --> 00:45:35.476
<v Sean Lanksbury>But that requires us to start with some,
you know, one year, two year,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1913-2
00:45:35.476 --> 00:45:38.636
<v Sean Lanksbury>three year terms,
and then they normalize over renewal.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1913-3
00:45:38.636 --> 00:45:43.094
<v Sean Lanksbury>And also how we fill vacancies will be
interim vacancies rather than just like</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1913-4
00:45:43.094 --> 00:45:46.198
<v Sean Lanksbury>getting them back out of alignment with
each other. So</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1914-0
00:45:47.078 --> 00:45:47.398
<v Sean Lanksbury>Um...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1947-0
00:45:49.078 --> 00:45:57.289
<v Sean Lanksbury>And so my role as Special Collections
Manager is to be the Arts Collections</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1947-1
00:45:57.289 --> 00:46:05.285
<v Sean Lanksbury>Manager and my first duty once,
if you choose to approve reactivation and</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1947-2
00:46:05.285 --> 00:46:07.878
<v Sean Lanksbury>changes to this charter,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1987-0
00:46:08.238 --> 00:46:13.428
<v Sean Lanksbury>is to do a call out for a Library
Foundation board member who might be</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1987-1
00:46:13.428 --> 00:46:17.960
<v Sean Lanksbury>interested in joining the committee as
stated in the charter,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1987-2
00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:23.005
<v Sean Lanksbury>plus staff and community applicants for
their respective open slots.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1987-3
00:46:23.005 --> 00:46:28.707
<v Sean Lanksbury>I'm hoping to get this process started in
June with the hope of reviewing the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/1987-4
00:46:28.707 --> 00:46:29.438
<v Sean Lanksbury>applicants</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2011-0
00:46:29.518 --> 00:46:35.181
<v Sean Lanksbury>possibly having them delivered to Tom and
to you all sometime in August,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2011-1
00:46:35.181 --> 00:46:41.078
<v Sean Lanksbury>so that we'll be prepared to be an active
committee in the new fiscal year.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2049-0
00:46:47.558 --> 00:46:53.362
<v Tali Hairston>Sean, just a quick question for me. I,
well, let me say two things.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2017-0
00:46:48.998 --> 00:46:49.558
<v Sean Lanksbury>Sure.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2049-1
00:46:53.362 --> 00:46:59.252
<v Tali Hairston>Are you aware? I'm not aware.
Are you aware of why the committee has</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2049-2
00:46:59.252 --> 00:47:05.141
<v Tali Hairston>been dormant? That's my first.
I looked to see if and read to see if</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2049-3
00:47:05.141 --> 00:47:06.678
<v Tali Hairston>that was in there.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2059-0
00:47:07.318 --> 00:47:12.043
<v Tali Hairston>Secondly,
the process for the board approval of,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2059-1
00:47:12.043 --> 00:47:14.358
<v Tali Hairston>is it, are we approving?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2082-0
00:47:15.438 --> 00:47:18.983
<v Tali Hairston>applicants to serve?
Are we approving recommendations?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2082-1
00:47:18.983 --> 00:47:23.238
<v Tali Hairston>What are, what are the,
what's the board's role? Just to clarify.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2072-0
00:47:20.438 --> 00:47:20.798
<v Sean Lanksbury>Scheff.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2124-0
00:47:21.958 --> 00:47:25.234
<v Sean Lanksbury>Yeah,
so my understanding is that we will</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2124-1
00:47:25.234 --> 00:47:29.057
<v Sean Lanksbury>review and recommend forward our top
applicants,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2124-2
00:47:29.057 --> 00:47:33.582
<v Sean Lanksbury>the ones that we feel are good fits based
on the charter.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2124-3
00:47:33.582 --> 00:47:37.951
<v Sean Lanksbury>And then they're presented to you and Tom
for approval,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2124-4
00:47:37.951 --> 00:47:43.958
<v Sean Lanksbury>but not that you'll have a pool of
applicants that you need to sort through.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2137-0
00:47:44.518 --> 00:47:51.381
<v Sean Lanksbury>and make selections from that we will we
will recommend from applicants that we've</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2137-1
00:47:51.381 --> 00:47:54.358
<v Sean Lanksbury>reviewed good fit for the committee.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2146-0
00:47:56.678 --> 00:47:59.398
<v Sean Lanksbury>And, and to address your first, oh, sorry.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2144-0
00:47:56.838 --> 00:47:57.798
<v Tali Hairston>And it's.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2154-0
00:48:00.278 --> 00:48:02.401
<v Tali Hairston>No, go for it.
Let me go for it and I'll come back to</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2154-1
00:48:02.401 --> 00:48:02.598
<v Tali Hairston>that.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2174-0
00:48:02.598 --> 00:48:06.561
<v Sean Lanksbury>Okay, sure.
To address your first question,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2174-1
00:48:06.561 --> 00:48:10.704
<v Sean Lanksbury>I don't actually know how it became
inactive.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2174-2
00:48:10.704 --> 00:48:14.398
<v Sean Lanksbury>I think a lot of the work centered around</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2222-0
00:48:16.198 --> 00:48:21.653
<v Sean Lanksbury>putting art into place following LFA and
some of the maintenance issues in the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2222-1
00:48:21.653 --> 00:48:25.175
<v Sean Lanksbury>early days and in the inventory of the
collection.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2222-2
00:48:25.175 --> 00:48:29.525
<v Sean Lanksbury>I feel like some major strides were made.
There was, you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2222-3
00:48:29.525 --> 00:48:33.323
<v Sean Lanksbury>some decent inventory work done,
though we've done it.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2222-4
00:48:33.323 --> 00:48:36.638
<v Sean Lanksbury>We've done a follow-up inventory just to
try to</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2260-0
00:48:36.718 --> 00:48:41.904
<v Sean Lanksbury>differentiate public art from other forms
of art throughout the system.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2260-1
00:48:41.904 --> 00:48:47.522
<v Sean Lanksbury>And I think that it may have just sort of
fell by the wayside and slowly just</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2260-2
00:48:47.522 --> 00:48:52.708
<v Sean Lanksbury>slipped away into inactivity.
My predecessor announced their retirement</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2260-3
00:48:52.708 --> 00:48:55.518
<v Sean Lanksbury>in 2018, I believe, and that might have</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2295-0
00:48:55.638 --> 00:49:01.626
<v Sean Lanksbury>been sort of the final, the final straw,
you know, in it sort of freezing out.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2295-1
00:49:01.626 --> 00:49:07.615
<v Sean Lanksbury>I know that Yazmin at one point served on
the art committee. And so, you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2295-2
00:49:07.615 --> 00:49:13.452
<v Sean Lanksbury>she may have more insight into that if
she was around towards the end of its</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2295-3
00:49:13.452 --> 00:49:14.438
<v Sean Lanksbury>existence. So</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2303-0
00:49:14.918 --> 00:49:19.958
<v Sean Lanksbury>But I don't have a lot of background
notes on why it fell out of practice.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2305-0
00:49:21.718 --> 00:49:22.278
<v Tali Hairston>Okay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2306-0
00:49:25.478 --> 00:49:26.118
<v Tali Hairston>A state.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2356-0
00:49:26.198 --> 00:49:29.206
<v Faith Pettis>Tali,
can I use the straw that I won't be able</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2311-0
00:49:27.558 --> 00:49:28.038
<v Tali Hairston>Mhm.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2356-1
00:49:29.206 --> 00:49:34.262
<v Faith Pettis>to use for long of being a newbie on this
board and not knowing the history of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2356-2
00:49:34.262 --> 00:49:39.318
<v Faith Pettis>stuff? Can you just inform us, Sean,
so that the library has an art collection</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2356-3
00:49:39.318 --> 00:49:42.774
<v Faith Pettis>that it owns,
or are we talking about checking out or</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2356-4
00:49:42.774 --> 00:49:44.118
<v Faith Pettis>borrowing or renting?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2399-0
00:49:44.998 --> 00:49:51.206
<v Sean Lanksbury>No, this is a great question.
It's actually really complicated if I can</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2399-1
00:49:51.206 --> 00:49:55.604
<v Sean Lanksbury>admit it.
There is a there is a City Art Office of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2399-2
00:49:55.604 --> 00:50:01.554
<v Sean Lanksbury>Arts and Culture collection which is
present in across our branches.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2379-0
00:49:58.758 --> 00:49:59.158
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2399-3
00:50:01.554 --> 00:50:04.918
<v Sean Lanksbury>Things that have been cited cited here.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2395-0
00:50:01.718 --> 00:50:05.078
<v Faith Pettis>Right. Oh, okay. Okay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2422-0
00:50:05.558 --> 00:50:09.910
<v Sean Lanksbury>through funding.
There are materials that have been over</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2422-1
00:50:09.910 --> 00:50:14.950
<v Sean Lanksbury>decades, over a century,
have accumulated that are actual library</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2422-2
00:50:14.950 --> 00:50:15.638
<v Sean Lanksbury>property.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2423-0
00:50:15.558 --> 00:50:17.558
<v Faith Pettis>Like donated or purchased or?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2473-0
00:50:17.198 --> 00:50:21.541
<v Sean Lanksbury>donated or we commissioned them through
possibly through the board.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2429-0
00:50:20.118 --> 00:50:20.598
<v Faith Pettis>Okay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2473-1
00:50:21.541 --> 00:50:26.651
<v Sean Lanksbury>Some of the history of that is a little
hazy and part of this work is to try to</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2439-0
00:50:24.758 --> 00:50:25.158
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2473-2
00:50:26.651 --> 00:50:31.634
<v Sean Lanksbury>get to the bottom of the background
history of each of these pieces and whose</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2473-3
00:50:31.634 --> 00:50:36.105
<v Sean Lanksbury>jurisdiction it falls under,
whether it's Office of Arts and Culture,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2473-4
00:50:36.105 --> 00:50:37.958
<v Sean Lanksbury>whether something is actually</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2523-0
00:50:38.158 --> 00:50:42.757
<v Sean Lanksbury>on parks property, whether, you know,
all the different things.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2523-1
00:50:42.757 --> 00:50:48.147
<v Sean Lanksbury>And then within the SPL organization,
what elements are more architectural</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2523-2
00:50:48.147 --> 00:50:53.825
<v Sean Lanksbury>features that are artistic that might
fall more under a facilities maintenance</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2493-0
00:50:50.358 --> 00:50:50.718
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2500-0
00:50:52.278 --> 00:50:52.758
<v Faith Pettis>OK.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2523-3
00:50:53.825 --> 00:50:59.143
<v Sean Lanksbury>program or are wayfinding that are
created as part of murals and whatnot.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2511-0
00:50:57.398 --> 00:50:57.798
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2523-4
00:50:59.143 --> 00:50:59.718
<v Sean Lanksbury>So we're</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2557-0
00:50:59.878 --> 00:51:05.173
<v Sean Lanksbury>That's part of the committee's role as
well is to help differentiate working</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2557-1
00:51:05.173 --> 00:51:10.880
<v Sean Lanksbury>with our partners as to what constitutes
our actual public art collection and that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2557-2
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:16.038
<v Sean Lanksbury>we follow the rules for addition,
deaccession, reciting, maintenance, etc.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2549-0
00:51:12.518 --> 00:51:12.598
<v Faith Pettis>Bye.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2556-0
00:51:15.798 --> 00:51:17.478
<v Faith Pettis>Got it, got it, interesting.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2558-0
00:51:17.078 --> 00:51:17.398
<v Sean Lanksbury>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2562-0
00:51:21.238 --> 00:51:22.198
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you for that.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2579-0
00:51:21.638 --> 00:51:28.250
<v Tali Hairston>And thank you for that question, Faith.
My curiosity is around whether the board</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2566-0
00:51:22.358 --> 00:51:22.998
<v Sean Lanksbury>You're welcome.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2579-1
00:51:28.250 --> 00:51:29.638
<v Tali Hairston>needs to approve.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2582-0
00:51:31.158 --> 00:51:33.478
<v Tali Hairston>the members of the committee.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2627-0
00:51:35.158 --> 00:51:39.576
<v Tali Hairston>Is that a is that required?
Is it is it even necessary?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2627-1
00:51:39.576 --> 00:51:43.679
<v Tali Hairston>And and I'm thinking of if if a Seattle
Foundation,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2627-2
00:51:43.679 --> 00:51:47.625
<v Tali Hairston>if a Library Foundation board member is
on there,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2627-3
00:51:47.625 --> 00:51:54.095
<v Tali Hairston>it's not like I I'm just curious as the
board's interest and the necessity of the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2627-4
00:51:54.095 --> 00:51:55.358
<v Tali Hairston>board approving.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2633-0
00:51:55.878 --> 00:52:00.358
<v Tali Hairston>The committee applicants,
but we can discuss that without.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2657-0
00:52:02.838 --> 00:52:05.590
<v Tali Hairston>interrupting the approval process for the
committee.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2657-1
00:52:05.590 --> 00:52:09.069
<v Tali Hairston>Is that something that can be possibly
discussed at a later point.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2657-2
00:52:09.069 --> 00:52:11.718
<v Tali Hairston>I don't know if there are other board
members who.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2700-0
00:52:11.958 --> 00:52:15.570
<v Faith Pettis>So the charter, yeah,
the charter does say that the candidates</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2662-0
00:52:12.838 --> 00:52:14.198
<v Tali Hairston>Have that as an issue, but...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2700-1
00:52:15.570 --> 00:52:20.443
<v Faith Pettis>are referred to the City Librarian before
approval by the Library Board of Trustees.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2700-2
00:52:20.443 --> 00:52:23.310
<v Faith Pettis>So, Tali,
are you saying that it's awkward for us</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2700-3
00:52:23.310 --> 00:52:27.208
<v Faith Pettis>to be approving candidates put forward by
particular organizations?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2700-4
00:52:27.208 --> 00:52:29.158
<v Faith Pettis>Is that what you're worried about?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2734-0
00:52:29.238 --> 00:52:34.288
<v Tali Hairston>Well, it's, I'm concerned that the,
and it's less a concern,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2734-1
00:52:34.288 --> 00:52:39.339
<v Tali Hairston>more of a curiosity of why we need to
approve the committee.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2734-2
00:52:39.339 --> 00:52:45.465
<v Tali Hairston>If these management team is pulling
applicants, approving them, querying,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2734-3
00:52:45.465 --> 00:52:48.198
<v Tali Hairston>approving, and then recommending,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2741-0
00:52:48.518 --> 00:52:52.998
<v Tali Hairston>Then I, I get that process. I mean,
it's fine. Is it?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2770-0
00:52:54.998 --> 00:52:57.673
<v Tali Hairston>We're not going to know as much,
obviously,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2770-1
00:52:57.673 --> 00:53:02.356
<v Tali Hairston>about those because we don't get and to
vet the applicants per se as much as</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2770-2
00:53:02.356 --> 00:53:06.187
<v Tali Hairston>approve their decision.
So I'm just curious about that process</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2770-3
00:53:06.187 --> 00:53:08.438
<v Tali Hairston>and whether that process is required.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2782-0
00:53:11.398 --> 00:53:13.757
<v Tali Hairston>Can it be changed? Is it necessary?
That's all.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2782-1
00:53:13.757 --> 00:53:15.478
<v Tali Hairston>I'm just curious as to why that is.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2807-0
00:53:15.878 --> 00:53:20.213
<v Sean Lanksbury>Yeah, I mean,
I believe that it's something we can</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2807-1
00:53:20.213 --> 00:53:26.588
<v Sean Lanksbury>discuss it more before approving,
but also we could set the committee sort</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2807-2
00:53:26.588 --> 00:53:26.758
<v Sean Lanksbury>of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2855-0
00:53:27.958 --> 00:53:32.273
<v Sean Lanksbury>just the call for applicants that it's
approved that we can we can reestablish</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2855-1
00:53:32.273 --> 00:53:35.168
<v Sean Lanksbury>this. Mostly,
I'm trying to respect the precedent of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2855-2
00:53:35.168 --> 00:53:39.647
<v Sean Lanksbury>the previous charter that it's, you know,
I don't want to sidestep any, you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2855-3
00:53:39.647 --> 00:53:43.088
<v Sean Lanksbury>necessary, you know,
approval by the by the group who actually</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2855-4
00:53:43.088 --> 00:53:46.038
<v Sean Lanksbury>helped author that and approved the
original charter.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2893-0
00:53:47.398 --> 00:53:50.562
<v Sean Lanksbury>And as far as the functional aspects of
that,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2893-1
00:53:50.562 --> 00:53:55.995
<v Sean Lanksbury>like whether or not all members of the
committee need to go all the way to the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2893-2
00:53:55.995 --> 00:54:01.154
<v Sean Lanksbury>board or just go to Tom and are approved
at that level and we call that an</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2893-3
00:54:01.154 --> 00:54:05.556
<v Sean Lanksbury>acceptable stop point,
I think is can be a follow up issue that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2893-4
00:54:05.556 --> 00:54:06.038
<v Sean Lanksbury>we just</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2925-0
00:54:06.438 --> 00:54:10.330
<v Sean Lanksbury>We can make adjustments to the charter
following the approval.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2925-1
00:54:10.330 --> 00:54:13.110
<v Sean Lanksbury>We can separate the two issues,
essentially.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2925-2
00:54:13.110 --> 00:54:17.188
<v Sean Lanksbury>We can just approve that it's okay to
reestablish this committee,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2925-3
00:54:17.188 --> 00:54:20.278
<v Sean Lanksbury>and then we can adjust the charter in a
separate.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2962-0
00:54:21.638 --> 00:54:26.336
<v Sean Lanksbury>conversation.
But I don't have any personal misgivings</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2962-1
00:54:26.336 --> 00:54:33.341
<v Sean Lanksbury>about it being simplified. And in fact,
as we've discussed in the past, you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2962-2
00:54:33.341 --> 00:54:40.518
<v Sean Lanksbury>sometimes I think the complication of the
whole process is maybe part of what slows</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2958-0
00:54:41.398 --> 00:54:41.798
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2976-0
00:54:41.478 --> 00:54:46.299
<v Sean Lanksbury>the ability of the committee to work and
maybe brings it to a halt because it's a</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2966-0
00:54:43.478 --> 00:54:43.878
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2973-0
00:54:45.758 --> 00:54:46.198
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2976-1
00:54:46.299 --> 00:54:48.358
<v Sean Lanksbury>lot of various steps to go through.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3030-0
00:54:50.518 --> 00:54:53.920
<v Rick Sheridan>So, Mr. Vice President,
I just offer there are two courses of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/2983-0
00:54:50.958 --> 00:54:51.558
<v Tali Hairston>What's that?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3030-1
00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:57.762
<v Rick Sheridan>action you could take here.
You could amend the draft charter that is</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3030-2
00:54:57.762 --> 00:55:01.988
<v Rick Sheridan>before you right now to essentially leave
approval in the hands of the Chief</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3030-3
00:55:01.988 --> 00:55:04.513
<v Rick Sheridan>Librarian,
or we could table approval of this</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3030-4
00:55:04.513 --> 00:55:08.794
<v Rick Sheridan>charter until a future meeting if you
want additional time to sort of discuss</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3030-5
00:55:08.794 --> 00:55:09.398
<v Rick Sheridan>the matter.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3032-0
00:55:09.718 --> 00:55:11.078
<v Rick Sheridan>amongst the board.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3042-0
00:55:13.718 --> 00:55:16.398
<v Tali Hairston>I don't think it requires us to table the.
..</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3040-0
00:55:16.438 --> 00:55:16.838
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3079-0
00:55:17.638 --> 00:55:21.440
<v Tali Hairston>the vote.
I think the way it's written is the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3079-1
00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:27.888
<v Tali Hairston>highest level of by coming to the board.
So I think if the board decides at a</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3079-2
00:55:27.888 --> 00:55:32.435
<v Tali Hairston>later point,
it could decide at a later point to amend</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3079-3
00:55:32.435 --> 00:55:34.998
<v Tali Hairston>that particular responsibility.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3089-0
00:55:37.118 --> 00:55:40.807
<v Tali Hairston>But I, there's no reason to table it,
in my opinion,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3089-1
00:55:40.807 --> 00:55:44.358
<v Tali Hairston>unless someone feels that it's necessary
to table.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3140-0
00:55:47.078 --> 00:55:51.959
<v Faith Pettis>I don't think it's necessary to table and
I could offer an amendment that might get</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3140-1
00:55:51.959 --> 00:55:56.899
<v Faith Pettis>us there so we don't have to revisit this,
which would be right after that sentence.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3106-0
00:55:52.438 --> 00:55:52.918
<v Tali Hairston>Mhm.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3140-2
00:55:56.899 --> 00:56:01.606
<v Faith Pettis>It says candidates are referred to the
City Librarian for review before approval</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3140-3
00:56:01.606 --> 00:56:05.616
<v Faith Pettis>by the library board of trustees.
We could say which approval may be</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3140-4
00:56:05.616 --> 00:56:06.198
<v Faith Pettis>delegated.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3144-0
00:56:06.438 --> 00:56:09.158
<v Faith Pettis>by the Library Board of Trustees to the
City Librarian.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3158-0
00:56:13.758 --> 00:56:17.825
<v Tali Hairston>I love that amendment.
It gives us the option, right?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3158-1
00:56:17.825 --> 00:56:19.558
<v Tali Hairston>It gives us the option.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3155-0
00:56:17.958 --> 00:56:18.198
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3157-0
00:56:19.958 --> 00:56:20.358
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3216-0
00:56:23.558 --> 00:56:27.508
<v Sean Lanksbury>I think some of the protection, if, sorry,
if I'm interrupting,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3216-1
00:56:27.508 --> 00:56:30.285
<v Sean Lanksbury>but some of the protection might be
because,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3216-2
00:56:30.285 --> 00:56:33.618
<v Sean Lanksbury>remember this was chartered during
libraries for all,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3216-3
00:56:33.618 --> 00:56:38.494
<v Sean Lanksbury>where there were a lot of proposals for
public art coming in and the worry for</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3189-0
00:56:36.358 --> 00:56:36.718
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3216-4
00:56:38.494 --> 00:56:42.815
<v Sean Lanksbury>abuse of funds might be high.
And so it gives the flexibility for the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3195-0
00:56:39.238 --> 00:56:39.638
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3216-5
00:56:42.815 --> 00:56:44.358
<v Sean Lanksbury>board to step in and say,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3221-0
00:56:44.638 --> 00:56:47.878
<v Sean Lanksbury>We want to slow this process and be
deliberative about it, so...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3211-0
00:56:44.838 --> 00:56:45.158
<v Faith Pettis>Yep.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3220-0
00:56:48.038 --> 00:56:48.358
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3233-0
00:56:49.478 --> 00:56:53.838
<v Faith Pettis>So, that said may, it's not a is right,
yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3230-0
00:56:52.358 --> 00:56:52.678
<v Tali Hairston>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3232-0
00:56:52.758 --> 00:56:53.158
<v Sean Lanksbury>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3237-0
00:56:55.158 --> 00:56:56.198
<v Tali Hairston>Yeah, if we could.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3277-0
00:56:57.318 --> 00:57:03.505
<v Tali Hairston>include that edit, that amendment,
I feel comfortable moving forward because</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3277-1
00:57:03.505 --> 00:57:09.612
<v Tali Hairston>it gives us some option to pivot at a
later date or as a board. And we can,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3277-2
00:57:09.612 --> 00:57:15.238
<v Tali Hairston>once again, work this through as needed.
It may not even be an issue.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3273-0
00:57:15.958 --> 00:57:16.278
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3275-0
00:57:16.318 --> 00:57:16.438
<v Sean Lanksbury>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3305-0
00:57:16.598 --> 00:57:22.100
<v Tali Hairston>It may not even be an issue.
But I do want to encourage the work.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3305-1
00:57:22.100 --> 00:57:26.519
<v Tali Hairston>I think the board wants to encourage this
committee.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3292-0
00:57:23.558 --> 00:57:24.038
<v Faith Pettis>Yep.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3305-2
00:57:26.519 --> 00:57:30.438
<v Tali Hairston>And so by creating another level of,
you know,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3311-0
00:57:31.558 --> 00:57:35.558
<v Tali Hairston>Approval approvals would be to be
diminished.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3326-0
00:57:36.598 --> 00:57:39.556
<v Tali Hairston>energy around the work.
So any way I can encourage that,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3326-1
00:57:39.556 --> 00:57:42.878
<v Tali Hairston>any way we can encourage that,
I think that would be important.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3341-0
00:57:46.438 --> 00:57:50.438
<v Tali Hairston>Any other discussion or questions for
Sean? Please do so.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3359-0
00:57:46.718 --> 00:57:51.134
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Hey, can I just jump in really quick? If,
if you guys are sorry,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3359-1
00:57:51.134 --> 00:57:55.279
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>if you guys are gonna make modifications
before you approve,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3359-2
00:57:55.279 --> 00:57:57.318
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>could I also suggest that you?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3379-0
00:57:59.398 --> 00:58:04.577
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Move to change City Librarian to
Executive Director and Chief Librarian.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3379-1
00:58:04.577 --> 00:58:07.558
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>I don't think we caught that in the draft.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3376-0
00:58:06.798 --> 00:58:07.318
<v Faith Pettis>Good idea.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3378-0
00:58:07.398 --> 00:58:08.358
<v Tali Hairston>Are we getting?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3380-0
00:58:08.838 --> 00:58:09.078
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3383-0
00:58:12.838 --> 00:58:12.998
<v Sean Lanksbury>Ah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3384-0
00:58:13.078 --> 00:58:13.958
<v Tali Hairston>Okay, so.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3385-0
00:58:13.998 --> 00:58:14.358
<v Sean Lanksbury>Okay.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3391-0
00:58:17.398 --> 00:58:19.798
<v Tali Hairston>Any other friendly amendments?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3392-0
00:58:24.038 --> 00:58:24.118
<v Ron >The.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3396-0
00:58:26.598 --> 00:58:27.798
<v Tali Hairston>Okay, so we have...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3422-0
00:58:29.238 --> 00:58:32.680
<v Tali Hairston>The charter,
the proposed amendments with a motion,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3422-1
00:58:32.680 --> 00:58:37.379
<v Tali Hairston>we need a motion to approve the updated
charter with those amendments,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3422-2
00:58:37.379 --> 00:58:40.358
<v Tali Hairston>not as published,
but with those amendments.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3437-0
00:58:42.638 --> 00:58:47.669
<v Faith Pettis>I will make the motion to approve this
charter with the amendment to the last</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3437-1
00:58:47.669 --> 00:58:49.798
<v Faith Pettis>sentence of the second paragraph.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3462-0
00:58:51.078 --> 00:58:54.869
<v Faith Pettis>So that sentence would read,
candidates are referred to the Executive</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3462-1
00:58:54.869 --> 00:58:59.203
<v Faith Pettis>Director and Chief Librarian for review
before approval by the Library Board of</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3462-2
00:58:59.203 --> 00:59:01.478
<v Faith Pettis>Trustees, which approval may be delegated.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3468-0
00:59:02.678 --> 00:59:06.278
<v Faith Pettis>to the Executive Director and Chief
Librarian.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3471-0
00:59:09.878 --> 00:59:10.438
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Second.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3472-0
00:59:10.278 --> 00:59:11.078
<v Tali Hairston>We have a second.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3479-0
00:59:12.598 --> 00:59:14.838
<v Tali Hairston>All in favor, raise your hand or say aye.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3478-0
00:59:14.918 --> 00:59:15.038
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3516-0
00:59:17.558 --> 00:59:23.597
<v Tali Hairston>I think Ron is frozen. There he is, Ron.
Okay. The charter is approved. Thank you,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3488-0
00:59:21.518 --> 00:59:21.718
<v Sean Lanksbury>The.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3516-1
00:59:23.597 --> 00:59:28.109
<v Tali Hairston>Sean. Thank you, Kay. Kay,
I didn't know if you wanted to add</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3516-2
00:59:28.109 --> 00:59:30.438
<v Tali Hairston>anything. We already voted, but.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3508-0
00:59:32.718 --> 00:59:32.838
<v Sean Lanksbury>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3529-0
00:59:32.758 --> 00:59:35.390
<v Kai Tang>No, thanks.
I was just here in case there were</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3519-0
00:59:35.278 --> 00:59:35.398
<v Tali Hairston>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3529-1
00:59:35.390 --> 00:59:40.038
<v Kai Tang>additional questions that could possibly
be asked that you might need me and Sean.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3531-0
00:59:41.318 --> 00:59:42.758
<v Kai Tang>Does everything and knows it, so.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3539-0
00:59:44.758 --> 00:59:47.518
<v Tali Hairston>Awesome.
Thank you so much for being present.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3546-0
00:59:49.158 --> 00:59:49.958
<v Sean Lanksbury>Thank you all.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3552-0
00:59:49.158 --> 00:59:54.028
<v Tali Hairston>All right,
let us move to our number three item,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3552-1
00:59:54.028 --> 00:59:55.718
<v Tali Hairston>our union report.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3567-0
00:59:59.118 --> 01:00:02.838
<v Tali Hairston>And who are we promoting? Is it Jessie?
Jessie today. Hi, Jessie.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3560-0
00:59:59.798 --> 01:00:00.518
<v Jessica Lucas>Hi there.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3565-0
01:00:01.398 --> 01:00:02.038
<v Jessica Lucas>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3602-0
01:00:03.198 --> 01:00:08.990
<v Jessica Lucas>Hey, how's it going?
You get a nice view of my dirty work room</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3574-0
01:00:05.958 --> 01:00:06.998
<v Tali Hairston>Good, good to see you.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3602-1
01:00:08.990 --> 01:00:16.070
<v Jessica Lucas>today. Yeah, thank you for having me.
I just wanted to expand on my report a</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3602-2
01:00:16.070 --> 01:00:22.598
<v Jessica Lucas>little bit and say that we're having a
very interesting time with our.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3641-0
01:00:23.398 --> 01:00:27.930
<v Jessica Lucas>the beginning to our negotiations,
and we're all learning about</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3641-1
01:00:27.930 --> 01:00:33.099
<v Jessica Lucas>interest-based bargaining right now.
It's a different process for folks.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3641-2
01:00:33.099 --> 01:00:36.710
<v Jessica Lucas>A lot of our teams have not experienced
it before,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3641-3
01:00:36.710 --> 01:00:40.676
<v Jessica Lucas>so it's a little bit of a learning curve
at the moment.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3641-4
01:00:40.676 --> 01:00:43.438
<v Jessica Lucas>But hopefully we will get on top of it.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3686-0
01:00:44.118 --> 01:00:49.915
<v Jessica Lucas>by the time our training that is provided
by PERC runs out at our next meeting.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3686-1
01:00:49.915 --> 01:00:53.683
<v Jessica Lucas>PERC is the Public Employment Relations
Commission,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3686-2
01:00:53.683 --> 01:00:59.045
<v Jessica Lucas>and so they have oversight for labor
relations and collective bargaining,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3686-3
01:00:59.045 --> 01:01:04.118
<v Jessica Lucas>and they also assist if there is a labor
management disagreement that</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3723-0
01:01:04.678 --> 01:01:08.338
<v Jessica Lucas>goes beyond what we can do in-house.
So anyway,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3723-1
01:01:08.338 --> 01:01:13.752
<v Jessica Lucas>she is there and helping us learn how to
do interest-based bargaining,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3723-2
01:01:13.752 --> 01:01:18.861
<v Jessica Lucas>and we're getting there.
Hopefully we'll actually get down to some</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3723-3
01:01:18.861 --> 01:01:22.598
<v Jessica Lucas>real negotiations in just like a month
from now.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3730-0
01:01:23.518 --> 01:01:25.576
<v Jessica Lucas>Yeah,
just a little update and I hope</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3730-1
01:01:25.576 --> 01:01:27.798
<v Jessica Lucas>everything is going well with all of you.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3756-0
01:01:46.438 --> 01:01:46.918
<v Jessica Lucas>Mhm.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3763-0
01:01:46.958 --> 01:01:48.358
<v Tali Hairston>No, we are staying plugged in.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3769-0
01:01:48.758 --> 01:01:49.878
<v Jessica Lucas>Okay, wonderful.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3771-0
01:01:49.238 --> 01:01:53.638
<v Tali Hairston>We are staying plugged in. Thank you.
Any other questions for Jessie?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3773-0
01:01:57.478 --> 01:01:58.118
<v Tali Hairston>Great.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3790-0
01:02:00.758 --> 01:02:04.182
<v Tali Hairston>All right,
looks like we have our Library Foundation</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3790-1
01:02:04.182 --> 01:02:07.478
<v Tali Hairston>and Friends of Library updates from Ron
and Faith.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3812-0
01:02:09.878 --> 01:02:15.024
<v Ron >Yeah. Let's see,
I'm looking at my notes here.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3812-1
01:02:15.024 --> 01:02:23.238
<v Ron >The Library Foundation Board met on May
the 13th. It wasn't that long ago.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3848-0
01:02:24.598 --> 01:02:28.907
<v Ron >But my notes,
I wouldn't even remember what the heck</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3848-1
01:02:28.907 --> 01:02:34.516
<v Ron >happened so many meetings. But no,
there was a report on fundraising</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3822-0
01:02:30.998 --> 01:02:31.118
<v Tali Hairston>Yeah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3848-2
01:02:34.516 --> 01:02:40.370
<v Ron >performance so far this year.
Three million raised so far towards a $5.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3848-3
01:02:40.370 --> 01:02:44.598
<v Ron >5 million goal this year.
You can do the math. It's</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3887-0
01:02:44.958 --> 01:02:51.609
<v Ron >Looking pretty good. So congrats on that.
Both Library Giving Day and Give Big</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3887-1
01:02:51.609 --> 01:02:56.829
<v Ron >campaigns were successful.
Although I believe Brian noted it,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3887-2
01:02:56.829 --> 01:03:03.480
<v Ron >the numbers are down a bit from last year.
A special thanks to all the donors,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3887-3
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:05.838
<v Ron >including those in the room.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3891-0
01:03:05.958 --> 01:03:08.918
<v Ron >for their generosity and commitment to
the library.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3925-0
01:03:11.798 --> 01:03:16.443
<v Ron >Brian Lawrence also presented this
trust-based philanthropy model.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3925-1
01:03:16.443 --> 01:03:20.464
<v Ron >It's very interesting just how they do
their fundraising.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3925-2
01:03:20.464 --> 01:03:25.734
<v Ron >And I actually took notes on a lot of
this because it's really foundational</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3925-3
01:03:25.734 --> 01:03:29.478
<v Ron >stuff for anybody doing fundraising
development work.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3926-0
01:03:30.118 --> 01:03:30.318
<v Ron >Um...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3958-0
01:03:32.038 --> 01:03:39.398
<v Ron >There was a report on the audit,
which was presented and unanimously</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3958-1
01:03:39.398 --> 01:03:46.118
<v Ron >accepted. Clark Nuber did the audit,
and it was a clean audit,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3958-2
01:03:46.118 --> 01:03:49.318
<v Ron >no corrections or adjustments.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3971-0
01:03:50.878 --> 01:03:57.529
<v Ron >There was also action on renewing the
Library Foundation Friends Partnership.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3971-1
01:03:57.529 --> 01:04:01.878
<v Ron >And that agreement clarifies how those 3
entities.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3979-0
01:04:03.638 --> 01:04:07.878
<v Ron >of the foundation and friends in
supporting the library.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3980-0
01:04:08.918 --> 01:04:09.078
<v Ron >Ah.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3984-0
01:04:11.158 --> 01:04:12.518
<v Ron >I wish.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3987-0
01:04:15.478 --> 01:04:17.318
<v Ron >A bit of focus.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/3988-0
01:04:19.798 --> 01:04:20.038
<v Ron >Um...</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4003-0
01:04:23.398 --> 01:04:26.145
<v Ron >Moving forward,
and there's a lot of good energy,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4003-1
01:04:26.145 --> 01:04:28.838
<v Ron >and Tom made a great presentation on that
front.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4007-0
01:04:31.278 --> 01:04:33.078
<v Ron >And I think those are the main highlights.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4015-0
01:04:35.398 --> 01:04:37.878
<v Tali Hairston>All right, any questions for Ron? Thanks,
Ron.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4017-0
01:04:39.238 --> 01:04:39.798
<v Ron >Thank you.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4023-0
01:04:42.758 --> 01:04:44.358
<v Tali Hairston>Okay, Faith, we'll pass it to you.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4085-0
01:04:44.678 --> 01:04:47.705
<v Faith Pettis>Sure.
So the friends met last Tuesday on the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4085-1
01:04:47.705 --> 01:04:51.877
<v Faith Pettis>19th via Zoom following an in-person
meeting the prior month.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4085-2
01:04:51.877 --> 01:04:57.058
<v Faith Pettis>And the success of the in-person meeting
was so great that they talked about</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4085-3
01:04:57.058 --> 01:05:00.691
<v Faith Pettis>meeting more frequently in person,
which is terrific.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4085-4
01:05:00.691 --> 01:05:04.998
<v Faith Pettis>It's really fun to see the people out of
their boxes in person.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4137-0
01:05:05.398 --> 01:05:08.828
<v Faith Pettis>and especially when we get to meet at the
Friends facilities.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4079-0
01:05:06.038 --> 01:05:06.078
<v Tali Hairston>I.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4137-1
01:05:08.828 --> 01:05:13.364
<v Faith Pettis>So the bulk of the meeting was taken up
with the same report that we had heard at</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4137-2
01:05:13.364 --> 01:05:16.186
<v Faith Pettis>our special board meeting on the
household survey,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4137-3
01:05:16.186 --> 01:05:19.892
<v Faith Pettis>Seattle Household Survey,
and they got a similar presentation from</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4137-4
01:05:19.892 --> 01:05:23.046
<v Faith Pettis>Jessica Smith that we heard that was very
well received.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4137-5
01:05:23.046 --> 01:05:27.638
<v Faith Pettis>Just a couple of activities that happened,
and all this is last week, the Friends.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4184-0
01:05:27.878 --> 01:05:31.286
<v Faith Pettis>really busy last week. On the 21st,
they had three events,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4184-1
01:05:31.286 --> 01:05:33.886
<v Faith Pettis>including an event at the Green Lake
Branch,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4184-2
01:05:33.886 --> 01:05:38.162
<v Faith Pettis>one at a Seattle Arts and Lectures event
that was featuring Tommy Orange,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4184-3
01:05:38.162 --> 01:05:40.762
<v Faith Pettis>where they were giving away books and
totes.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4184-4
01:05:40.762 --> 01:05:45.384
<v Faith Pettis>And then they had a third event with an
organization called the Seattle Chamber</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4184-5
01:05:45.384 --> 01:05:47.638
<v Faith Pettis>of Connection. All of that on the 21st.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4199-0
01:05:48.038 --> 01:05:50.564
<v Faith Pettis>And then last weekend they had a pop-up
sale,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4199-1
01:05:50.564 --> 01:05:53.475
<v Faith Pettis>a book sale on Overlook Park down on the
waterfront.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4199-2
01:05:53.475 --> 01:05:55.398
<v Faith Pettis>So they are a busy group of people.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4201-0
01:05:57.398 --> 01:05:58.278
<v Faith Pettis>That's it for me.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4204-0
01:06:00.518 --> 01:06:01.638
<v Tali Hairston>Thank you, Faith.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4211-0
01:06:03.158 --> 01:06:05.467
<v Tali Hairston>All right,
updates from library board members.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4211-1
01:06:05.467 --> 01:06:06.598
<v Tali Hairston>Do we have any updates?</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4251-0
01:06:10.358 --> 01:06:14.994
<v Ron >Take a minute, Tali,
to mention the the kickoff for the the</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4217-0
01:06:11.158 --> 01:06:12.038
<v Tali Hairston>Yes, Carmen.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4251-1
01:06:14.994 --> 01:06:19.708
<v Ron >bond measure campaign.
I know I saw you there and Yazmin was</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4251-2
01:06:19.708 --> 01:06:23.650
<v Ron >there as well,
and I thought it was a great event.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4251-3
01:06:23.650 --> 01:06:29.678
<v Ron >It was over in the park right across the
Green Lake. The energy was terrific.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4272-0
01:06:30.318 --> 01:06:34.938
<v Ron >That was a great presentation by
everybody.</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4272-1
01:06:34.938 --> 01:06:43.548
<v Ron >And so just a shout out to the foundation
team and those involved on the campaign</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4272-2
01:06:43.548 --> 01:06:46.278
<v Ron >for a very spirited event.</v>

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01:06:48.758 --> 01:06:50.998
<v Tali Hairston>It was a beautiful day outside.</v>

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01:06:52.838 --> 01:06:53.398
<v Tali Hairston>Carmen.</v>

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01:06:52.878 --> 01:06:53.078
<v Ron >Yeah.</v>

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01:06:54.918 --> 01:06:59.753
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah, actually, this isn't an update,
but I meant to ask this earlier during</v>

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01:06:59.753 --> 01:07:04.211
<v Bendixen, Carmen>the Chief Librarian's report,
and I know there wasn't really a report,</v>

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01:07:04.211 --> 01:07:07.037
<v Bendixen, Carmen>but Rick,
maybe you could note this for Tom.</v>

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01:07:07.037 --> 01:07:10.428
<v Bendixen, Carmen>In his report,
he mentioned the all staff day and the</v>

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01:07:10.428 --> 01:07:14.447
<v Bendixen, Carmen>folks who had received awards.
And I'm wondering at some point,</v>

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01:07:14.447 --> 01:07:17.838
<v Bendixen, Carmen>because we usually, in the past,
we've gotten a list.</v>

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01:07:18.358 --> 01:07:22.236
<v Bendixen, Carmen>of folks.
So I'm wondering if we could get that</v>

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01:07:22.236 --> 01:07:26.438
<v Bendixen, Carmen>list of folks just as a extra recognition
for their</v>

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01:07:28.278 --> 01:07:28.918
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Their work.</v>

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01:07:30.358 --> 01:07:30.918
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Thanks.</v>

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01:07:30.558 --> 01:07:31.558
<v Faith Pettis>It's a great idea.</v>

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01:07:32.278 --> 01:07:34.784
<v Rick Sheridan>Carmen,
I'm sorry for that that occurred that we</v>

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01:07:34.784 --> 01:07:38.263
<v Rick Sheridan>didn't provide that list to you and we
certainly can get it to you.</v>

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01:07:38.263 --> 01:07:42.458
<v Rick Sheridan>So we'll be happy to share that with the
board in order to further recognize some</v>

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01:07:42.458 --> 01:07:44.198
<v Rick Sheridan>outstanding work by library staff.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Thank you, Carmen.
And speaking of outstanding folks,</v>

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01:07:51.472 --> 01:07:55.554
<v Tali Hairston>this was from last month and I just
recently was made aware of this.</v>

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01:07:55.554 --> 01:07:58.868
<v Tali Hairston>And it is about one of our board members,
Faith Pettis,</v>

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01:07:58.868 --> 01:08:03.186
<v Tali Hairston>the Housing Development Consortium of
Seattle King County honored Faith,</v>

3924bd9b-56fd-40cf-9fe9-bf893c1024c3/4436-4
01:08:03.186 --> 01:08:08.038
<v Tali Hairston>honored Pacific partner Faith Pettis this
week with a Lifetime Achievement Award.</v>

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01:08:08.438 --> 01:08:12.987
<v Tali Hairston>in recognition of her exemplary
contributions to affordable housing</v>

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01:08:12.987 --> 01:08:16.600
<v Tali Hairston>progress in Seattle and the wider Puget
Sound region.</v>

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01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:21.685
<v Tali Hairston>Titus received the Carl Okigwe Award,
which is named for the HDC's founding</v>

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01:08:21.685 --> 01:08:27.238
<v Tali Hairston>Executive Director at the organization's
annual celebration of affordable housing.</v>

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01:08:28.238 --> 01:08:31.399
<v Tali Hairston>Congratulations, Faith.
I know you would never tell us about that.</v>

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01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:34.278
<v Tali Hairston>So when I found out about it,
I reserved it for this moment.</v>

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01:08:33.078 --> 01:08:33.158
<v Ron >It.</v>

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01:08:35.758 --> 01:08:37.798
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you, Tali. That was very kind.</v>

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01:08:38.678 --> 01:08:39.958
<v Tali Hairston>Congratulations.</v>

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01:08:39.798 --> 01:08:41.478
<v Ron >Wow. Congratulations.</v>

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01:08:42.358 --> 01:08:43.318
<v Bendixen, Carmen>That's awesome, Faith.</v>

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01:08:42.518 --> 01:08:42.638
<v Tali Hairston>Yeah.</v>

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01:08:44.118 --> 01:08:44.918
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you all.</v>

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01:08:47.198 --> 01:08:51.548
<v Tali Hairston>Well,
we do not have an executive session and</v>

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01:08:51.548 --> 01:08:58.925
<v Tali Hairston>it is now 12:10 and this meeting is
adjourned. Our next meeting is June 25th,</v>

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01:08:58.925 --> 01:08:59.398
<v Tali Hairston>2026.</v>

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01:09:01.838 --> 01:09:02.998
<v Faith Pettis>See you all next month.</v>

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01:09:02.518 --> 01:09:04.678
<v Tali Hairston>Everyone have a great day. Take care.</v>

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01:09:03.558 --> 01:09:06.678
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah. Thank you. Bye.</v>

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01:09:04.878 --> 01:09:05.958
<v Ron >Bye, bye, everybody.</v>

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01:09:05.198 --> 01:09:05.478
<v Faith Pettis>Kai.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>Bye.</v>